Schools Matter

Sent to the NY Times, June 24, 2015. Pearson, a company responsible for much of common core testing, employs graders at low wages who are ...

  Actually it's the same news but good or bad depending on whether you like what I write or post. I haven't posted or blogged for...

Since being h ired over more qualified candidates for the position of Knox County superintendent, Jim McIntyre has distinguished himself a...

By Ken Derstine June 22, 2015 Frederick Hess   is a resident scholar and director of education pol...

From Roof's manifesto: "Segregation was not a bad thing. It was a defensive measure. Segregation did not exist to hold back ne...

Sent to the NY Times, June 20, 2015 Re: English Class in Common Core Era: ‘Tom Sawyer’ and Court Opinions (June 19, 2015). Those who write ...

A hundred years ago the first large scale IQ tests were devised by American eugenicists who saw testing as a surefire "scientific...

Since Gates and the oligarchs put Supt. Dorsey Hopson in charge of the charterization of public schools in Memphis, Shelby County Schools h...

The NYTimes has a story today reporting the smackdown Obama and the Republicans suffered yesterday when the Senate voted against NAFTA 2.0...

Jersey Jazzman: NJ Supreme Court to NJ Public Workers: Screw You : I think I'll call Comcast later today and tell them I'm not payin...