Schools Matter

This post is embarrassing —both for the content and the fact that Petrilli appears unaware how embarrassing it is. Single-mothers are not ...

Money is power. Power is money. Bill Gates has too much of both. Valerie Strauss gets it —that Bill Gates is not what education needs...

Sent to the New York Daily News, Sept. 27, 2013 The Daily News reported that "Less than half of Americans read for fun last year, Nat...

You would come to allow — or steer — some of the worst policies to undermine, weaken, and privatize public education through your appointee...

Sent to the Christian Science Monitor There are two possible reasons for the decline of SAT scores ("As college-prep test scores fal...

Now the slow starvation has become a complete denial of life support for Philadelphia’s public schools. - Ken Derstine, Philadelphia Edu...

Diane Ravitch posted a father's letter about his daughter's first tes t in kindergarten, a letter I hope everyone will read.   It...

Research proven: School Libraries & Free Voluntary Reading. Unproven and expensive: #CCSS & iPads. #LAUSD @skrashen pic.twitter.c...

 by Susan Ohanian He's back!  Who knew that Jonah Edelman is alive and well--and pumping the Common Core! I stumbled on this informa...

With all due respect to Joanne Yatvin, who has made important contributions to NCTE and to literacy (notably her work confronting the flawe...