Wisconsin's Forward Institute released a new study of the Milwaukee schools yesterday that shows charter schools' better performance on Wisconsin's new "school report cards" compared with regular public schools is due almost entirely to the fact that the charter schools are able to exclude habitual truants.
There has been a barrage of rightwing attacks on teachers and public education this week, which conservatives have dubbed "National School Choice Week."
When Teach for America scored a last-minute language change in the recent debt deal—and a huge windfall—not everyone was surprised.
In her Washington Post column Friday, Valerie Strauss reports on a protest by faculty in the College of Education at Eastern Michigan University, which is a partner with Governor Rick Snyder’s Education Achievement Authority.
Just three years ago I had never heard of The American Legislative Exchange Council, the uber right wing neoconservative think tank that forges pro corporate policies in secret with their legislative buddies.
The life of a university professor is not a particularly difficult one. After 13 years of college and enough student loans to purchase a small suburban home I’ve earned the right to make my own schedule, teach courses in my field of expertise, and work on projects that interest me. EduSanity is one of those projects.
One of the things I know is that anxiety is irrational. We worry about the wrong things and not about the things that should concern us. And then, of course, we don’t take the steps to do something about what we ought to be worrying about.
The formula for children in the U.S. can be summed up in one word, I think: “harsh.” And the response we should have to this formula is “inexcusable.”
Let’s consider the U.S. formula for children:
Educator Mike Rose and historian Michael B. Katz describe the greatest problem for public education in America: “Throughout American history, inequality—refracted most notably through poverty and race—has impinged on the ability of children to learn and of teachers to do their jobs.”
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