Schools Matter

The Koch Brothers now own North Carolina state government, and until that changes, the rights of NC citizens will be subjected to any numbe...

Last update: June 26, 2016 Since the 192 pages of ESSA regulations were posted recently for public comment, FairTest, AFT/NEA, and...

NOTE: By now, I suppose this is old news. I tried to publish it in more general venues--reaching beyond our rather narrow education audience...

Neil Postman delivered an address at the 1969 NCTE Conference entitled " Bullshit and the Art of Crap-Detection ." He advocated ...

Sanity takes a deep breath today : WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a race-conscious admissions program...

Part 1 was posted in December 2015 , just days after the U of Michigan announced a $7 million grant from the Gates Foundation to support a ...

From Education Law Center: Statement from David G. Sciarra, ELC Executive Director: The Governor’s school fundi...

by Stephen Krashen, Susan Ohanian, and Jim Horn Research studies over the past half-century show the effects of poverty and segregation a...

 by Susan Ohanian NOTE: I've done two things Bill Gates has never done: 1) Gone to a Bolivian market  with my mother-in-law & ...

Introducing the latest pile of bullshit from the Common Core technotwits--a report card that parents can't understand and that tells ch...