From Chalkbeat, which asks if the pending retirement of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch is a victory for labor leaders of the NYSUT (who felt little
Yesterday Chancellor of the Board of Regents Merryl Tisch announced that she will step down when her term is up this Spring. Tisch has been
Lynnell Mickelsen in the Star-Tribune explains how school choice haters and their “hot house culture of conspiracy theories” reminds her of growing up in a
Tom Moran at the Star-Ledger nails the pro-public charter zeitgeist in Newark: The failure of urban schools, we are often told, can be traced to
Like the boy in the Hans Christian Anderson’s tale called “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” we’re all agape as results on new benchmarked assessments roll in
Peter Cunningham in the Huffington Post: Charter opponents like to label education leaders who are empowering families’ right to choose as “privatizers.” In their dictionary,
From Paul Rudnick’s “diagnostic exam” in the New Yorker: 1. When your first grader asks for help solving a Common Core math problem involving subitizing
Let me state this for the record: I love PBS. But Gwen Ifill’s interview with Jesse Hagopian, an anti-testing activist in Seattle who, according to
Chalkbeat reports today that yesterday New York City Chancellor Carmen Fariña and New York State Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, equipped with dueling improvement plans, visited two
Cory Booker, Mark Zuckerberg, and Chris Christie’s were unable to create a reform program that would serve as a model for all struggling urban school