Schools Matter: Teacher Attrition in Charter Schools

Schools Matter: Teacher Attrition in Charter Schools

Teacher Attrition in Charter Schools

by Jim Horn

From a new policy brief by Nat'l Center on School Choice (click to enlarge):

Bill Gates, the Oligarchs' Oligarch

by Jim Horn

Beneath the creaky boyishness and slightly demented grin of Billy Gates beats the heart of a ruthless capitalist intent upon shaping the world in ways that make the future safe for the production of his line of cure-alls to the problems that he spends so much of his time marketing. After all, the inevitability of accepting the Gates-Broad-Walton-Fisher cure depends entirely upon the framing of the problem in ways that make such cures inevitable.


One of his favorite problems these days is disguised as "underperforming" schools and teachers, when, in fact, Gates's real problems, if acknowledged, would include the real costs of urban renewal, the threat of unionism, the potential costs of any social disorder, inefficiency, and anything less than an oversupply of politically-fumigated, obedient, trained technical workers and technocrats to manage them.


The current Gates solution: KIPP Schools, where untrained white female Ivy Leagues temps engage the

Randi Wins Best Non-Supportive Acting Role as Teacher Unionist President

by Jim Horn

Thanks, Jack Gerson, for handing out this distinguished award. See Randi tsk, see Randi cluck, see Randi shocked! Really.


Weingarten has been in on every sleazy corporate-sponsored deal crafted during the past 3 years to eviscerate the teaching profession and due process, and now she is shocked Obama and Duncan are doing the same.


Her invited guest this week? Bill Gates, who had this to say last year at a TED talk where he discussed