What the AP program can’t do
The latest report by the College Board on its Advanced Placement program talks a lot about the success of these courses. Here's a different look at the AP.
French mother sends son named Jihad to school in T-shirt with the words ‘I am a bomb’
A mother who named her son Jihad and sent him to school with a T-shirt that mentions bombs and Sept. 11 is on trial in France.
Ravitch forms advocacy group to counter Rhee and other school reformers
Diane Ravitch explains why she she has formed a new advocacy group to fight corporate-based school reform and organizations -- like Michelle Rhee's -- that support it.
A teachers’ contract not for teachers
A parents writes about a contract for teachers that really isn't about teachers at all.
Philadelphia to close 23 public schools; Randi Weingarten arrested at protest (update)
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten was arrested along with 18 other activists today in Philadelphia as they were protesting the closing of public schools.
Neovouchers: The debate continues
What's the difference between vouchers and neovouchers? That and more on vouchers and their cousins.
How school closings affect children
Philadelphia's School Reform Commission is about to decide whether to go ahead with an unprecedented and controversial plan to close 29 public schools. Do school closings really accomplish what advocates say they will? No.
The Dalai Lama’s education tweet
Even the Dalai Lama is tweeting.
Jon Stewart ridicules preschool critics
Take six minutes and 12 seconds to watch Stewart take apart critics of preschool.
Obama, Oprah, Colbert, Ripken etc: The 2013 commencement speakers
Where is Obama speaking? Oprah? Colbert?
How social networking rules for teachers go too far
A teacher reviews social networking guidelines that she says make it impossible for her to relax into "average-ness."
U-Va.: Gov. McDonnell can’t say he wasn’t warned
Remember the 18-day leadership crisis at the University of Virginia last summer? Are we headed there again?
Voters send mixed signals to school reformers in L.A.
Voters keep sending signals that they have very mixed feelings about corporate-based school reform. The latest signs come from Los Angeles, where races for three Board of Education seats resulted in one defeat, one win, and one runoff for supporters of school reform.
How closing schools hurts neighborhoods
School closings are happening in urban landscapes across America, and Philadelphia is one of the most vivid examples.
Why the ‘learning pyramid’ is wrong
Have you ever seen the "learning pyramid" and assumed it made sense? Think again.
Arne Duncan: The newest rhetoric vs. the reality
Education Secretary Arne Duncan sometimes says things that his policies belie. Here's the newest rhetoric and reality.
Does Head Start work for kids? The bottom line
Head Start is back in the news because of President Obama's new early childhood education initiative and concerns about how the program will be affected by sequestration. So does it work or not?
Is school reform about replacing blackness?
There are racial and class currents that undergird every element of the school “choice” movement, argues Natalie Hopkinson.
Oklahoma’s school A-F grading system called ‘misleading’
Oklahoma's A-F school accountability grading system is, researchers say, so flawed that it needs to be replaced.
Jeb Bush’s A-F school grading scheme: The facts
Jeb Bush instituted a questionable A-F school grading system in Florida when he was governor and has persuaded a number of other states to do it too. Did it work in the Sunshine State?
Principal: ‘I was naïve about Common Core’
An award-winning principal who wrote a book in support of the Common Core now says she was "naive" about the standards' implementation.
Big outside money pouring into L.A. school board races
Here's why school reformers are spending millions on three local school board races in Los Angeles and why they are worried about the results.
How George Orwell might explain school reform
School reform through George Orwell's world view? It's a scary view. Take a look
Student videotapes teacher allegedly stealing from student backpacks
Here's how a student caught a teacher who was rifling through student backpacks and apparently stealing cash.
‘Neovouchers’: A primer on private school tax credits
Here's a primer on "neovouchers."