While we focus on improving education in the nation’s K-12 schools, we also need to focus on reforming education in the prisons where many who failed in public schools end up.
You should be real about the fact that only some students matter
It’s right for equity advocates to focus attention on the students deemed needier. At the same time, they shouldn’t allow their advocacy to mean other students aren’t likely to need support too.
Integration politics reveals the progressive cure for racism: more racism
What happens when desegregation politics become so twisted that progressives defend racism, and conservatives champion racial justice?
Union surrogates pretend charter schools aren’t public. They’re dead wrong.
Thread by @citizenstewart: “Read me for five minutes and you know one problem that gets in my grill is when “journalists” fail to make the public smarter about issues o […]”
The campaign against charter schools shifts attention away from fraud in districts
Thread by @citizenstewart: “American teachers’ unions are waging war on charters and attacking school reform infrastructure. Key to their strategy is to create union as […]”
POD: Oakland teachers go full-on thug during strikes
Things are getting ugly in Oakland as its teachers turn to violence and intimidation as a strike tactic.
PODCAST: It’s black history month, and….?
Should we get tied up in controversies about blackface?
Let’s stop pitting charter school and district parents against each other, and start valuing their right to choose schools
It should be shocking that middle-class educators with college degrees and above average occupational benefits trade in these hasty, dehumanizing generalizations. Even you the reader might harbor similar classist illusions of the stereotypical low-income parent who passively allows their kids to be redlined into the dark underbelly of public schools.
PODCAST: Another day, another Teacher tantrum…this time in Oakland
Follow the lead of teachers across the country, the Oakland teachers union is set to strike for….wait for it….more pay, more union members, and a cap on charter schools.
According to Napoleon Hill, reforming schools is a way to shame the devil
The possibility of independent thinkers is the thing that haunts the Devil. He says he fears that “someday some courageous person will reverse the present system of school teaching” and create one where “children establish ways and means of developing their own minds from within.”