Are we abandoning public education 60 years after historic Brown ruling?
May 17 is the 60th anniversary of the famous U.S. Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the 1954 decision that banned the “separate but equal” doctrine that allowed states and school districts to designate some schools “whites-only” and others “Negroes-only” and helped launch an era of civil rights activism. I recently published a report by […]
Where Gates money is going in education world this year
Where in the education world has Bill Gates been putting his foundation’s money this year? A look at some of the biggest grants awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — by far the largest philanthropy in the world — shows millions of dollars being spent to foster “cooperation” between traditional public schools and […]
5-15-14 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: Pushback on standardized testing around the country getting strongerTo get an idea of what is going on around the country in regards to the growing anti-standardized testing movement, look at the following collection of stories that have come out in the last week or about the growing resistance around the country to high-stakes standardized testing. This list was issued by the Na