Schools Matter

Houston takes the lead and becomes the largest school district in the country to adopt a teacher merit pay program tied to guess what -- te...

It seems that Aaanold can't wait for Spellings' Commission to make a recommendation for privatization of higher ed. He is already o...

Until very recently, the Century Foundation's impressive collection of liberal educators steadfastly maintained a dopey idealized notion...

Bill Berkowitz at Media Transparency brings us this nice update on the crackpot crusader, David Horowitz. Seems like his cred has taken a ...

PEN's survey on NCLB has been moved to this site: GiveKidsGoodSchools.org If you did not complete the survey already, go to the site a...

What is middle America saying in about the educational equivalent of the Iraq debacle in the middle American press? A noteworthy piece here ...

Starting today, and for the next several days, posts to SM will be sporadic. Will return to regular daily posting on Monday, January 16, 200...

Here is Greg Palast's take on the Bloomberg madness in NYC of requiring 3rd, 5th, and 7th graders to pass the test to move to the next g...

Bitter Lesson: A Good School Gets an 'F' By MICHAEL WINERIP Published: January 11, 2006 In the right kind of world, Public School 4...

Millions of Americans who tune in this Friday night to ABC's 20/20 will hear how public school is a union dominated monopoly and the onl...