After you complete high school, you’re often expected to go on to higher education. But here in the city, the state’s top education official says
Poor Andrew Cuomo: he just can’t get it right. First he signed the Education Transformation Act of 2015 that, in part, ties teacher evaluations to
On Thursday morning President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act, which greatly reduces the federal role in public education and hands much of the
Chalkbeat reports today that New York City Bill de Blasio’s $400 million plan to improve the city’s 94 worst high schools and middle schools is
Jim Schutze has a provocative column in the Dallas Observer (hat tip: Chris Stewart) called “Teacher Unions and Koch Bros. Join Forces to Sell Out
‘The single best thing that I can do,” Gov. Cuomo said last year, is “break what is in essence one of the only remaining public
Today’s Washington Examiner article, entitled “Tide Shifting Against Common Core,” is a great illustration of the failure of journalists to differentiate between the Common Core
Many Americans probably chuckle in agreement when hearing that old Mark Twain quip, “suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of
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
Do you ever read a piece and think, “I wish I’d written that?” Lynnel Mickelson, who describes herself as a progressive Democrat, wrote a great