Dirt Update: Doug Martin on Workers' Voice Show Today at 5 PM EST
by Doug MartinI want everyone to know I am now working on several new dirt-pieces to expose more politicians and corporate school reformers and will post them in the very near future. Since the release of my book Hoosier School Heist on March 21, I have been very busy travelling throughout Indiana and lining up more travelling gigs. Tonight from 5 PM to 6 PM EST, I will be talking about women's r
A KIPP Teacher Speaks of Her Nervous Breakdown and Post-KIPP Recovery, Part 1
The following excerpts are from an interview conducted in February and March of this year. The findings from these in-depth conversations will comprise a significant part of a book I am writing about the experience of teaching in the No Excuses corporate reform charter schools. When Jane became a KIPP teacher, she had a non-education Bachelors, a Masters in Education, and several years of succes
A weapon of mass distraction
Sent to the New York Times,April 11, 2014Yes, there's a big problem with the tests ("We need to talk about the tests," April 10). but there's a bigger problem: The whole idea of the common core. Accurately described by Susan Ohanian as “a radical untried curriculum overhaul and ... nonstop national testing," the common core is an outrageous scheme with no justification and no empir
4-10-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: America's Top Corporate Education Welfare Queen, Joanne WeissJoanne Weiss is an active exemplar for corporate welfare exploitation in education. Just a few years ago, she moved from a tech firm to become COO for the New Schools Venture Fund, which grew to be a massive slush fund for vulture philanthropists, following Bill Clinton's undercover operation that made it possible to ear