Schools Matter

The new NAEP scores are just out, and, per always, the hand-wringing has already begun.  Compared to 2017, scores disappoint, especially f...

from Salon : A federal judge on Thursday held Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education in contempt of court for vi...

Spoiler Alert: Unlike in 2016, DFER is not happy!  We shall see what the Dem platform eventually looks like, but if Warren is the candida...

From 2012  Schools Matter: The Naked Truth about the National Reading Panel R... : Stephen Krashen's letter to Ed Week in the previous p...

Algorithms grading student essays ?  What could go wrong? “The algorithms are prone to a couple of flaws. One is that they can be fooled ...

In support of all the teachers, parents, and kids in Chicago who are marching, striking, and honking their horns for public schools.  And ...

DeVos is the perfect Secretary of ED for Traitor Trump--she's incompetent, corrupt, and contemptuous of the law: U.S. Secretary of E...

KIPP, Inc. would like to forget that Mike Feinberg is co-founder of KIPP, a corporate "no excuses" charter school chain made infa...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 Contact : Linda Benesch,  lbenesch@ socialsecurityworks.org Trump’s Executive Orde...

From Common Dreams : A landmark United Nations climate  report  published Wednesday details the observed and anticipated future impact...