A Brief Video Tutorial on Why "Poverty [or Zip Code] Is Not Destiny" Remains a Lie
Updating: Downtown School for Seattle
Well, this is interesting. News from the Puget Sound Business Journal.As you may remember, the former Federal Reserve building - a federal building - was closed years ago. Under federal law, entities and groups may apply to use the building for public purposes. The Downtown Association was very interested in the district applying so that downtown would have an elementary school. It's a good lo
Louisiana Withdraws from PARCC and Jindal Moves to Block Pearson Test Purchase
In the latest bad news for the Oligarchs' Common Core enterprise, Bobby Jindal has moved to sever the head from the Common Core monster in Louisiana. He knows that without the Pearson tests that PARCC is force-feeding the states without the benefit of a bidding process, the Core will disappear within a couple of years. Jindal's office has notified the State Department of Education that purchasin
6-18-14 Schools Matter All Week #StopJebNow
Schools Matter: #StopJebNowA clip from the Wall Street Journal:Education policy was Jeb Bush’s political salvation. After his first bid for Florida governor in 1994 ended in defeat, he threw himself into founding the state’s first charter school in a blighted Miami neighborhood. He went on to serve two terms as the state’s “education governor” and become a national policy expert.Twenty years later