The day all the public schools died
By Valerie Strauss
This satirical post was written by Mark Phillips, professor emeritus of secondary education at San Francisco State University and author of a monthly column on education for the Marin Independent Journal.
By Mark Phillips
And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ‘Tis that I may not weep” --Lord Byron
Summer vacations will be extended in all public schools in the U.S. this year. They will now be year-round.
This announcement yesterday by the Secretary of Education, which shocked parents all over the country, has been directly traced to the combined effects of the government programs No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. As one local teacher, now an applicant to teach on Mark Zuckerberg’s new Textbook, put it, “Now that the schools are