Short note about Network of Public Education's (NOPE) focus on education fraud
My friends at NOPE need to broaden their scope of fraud reveals.
Fuller to charter advocates: You're in a fight, don't run home to Mama!
Dr. Howard Fuller has been on the vanguard of the fight for educational options, and today he has a message for education advocates: fight for your lives!
It's time to admit Diane Ravitch's troubled crusade derails honest debate about public education
The longstanding arguments for charters could still be had in clean exchanges between judicious people - sans Ravitch - if we seek understanding and progress.
I'm sorry, but crap like this deserves zero tolerance
A fight at the 'happiest place on Earth' says a lot about our cultural failure. This is the best justification for 'no excuses' I've seen.
Prison is yet another place where education must be reformed
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?