Walton Foundation Gives $20 Million to TFA
The most reactionary and anti-union of the major foundations–the billionaire Walton Family Foundation–has awarded $20 million to Teach for America to send bright, ill-prepared new college graduates into the nation’s classrooms. The largest contingent –700–will go to Los Angeles. That city has a large number of nonunion charter schools. TFA aids the Walton ambition to privatize public schools and
Why Will No Major National Paper Publish John Merrow’s Story About Rhee?
From the time Michelle Rhee started her run in DC, John Merrow was there to chronicle her progress on PBS. He posted a dozen episodes of her trials and triumphs. But last year, he began to have doubts. He began to wonder how widespread the cheating was and how much she knew. He hit a stonewall. An experienced journalist, he wrote an opinion piece reviewing his findings. But suddenly, no one cared
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Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Bruce Baker: Why He Won’t Use the Term “Corporate Reform”Bruce Baker brilliantly explains here why he won’t use the term “corporate reform.” The strategies now being imposed on the schools have failed when applied in corporate settings, he writes. He looks at the use of two now-popular “reform” ideas in education: the portfolio mod