Monthly Archives: November 2013

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Last January, Richard Rothstein and Martin Carnoy released a report on international test scores, arguing that American students perform better than is generally believes. Since many people are deeply invested in the conventional…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Chris Gable is a beloved teacher of language arts and social studies in Asheville, North Carolina. People consider him not just a good teacher, but a great one. And he is leaving North…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Arkansas is the home of the Walton Family Foundation, which gives heavy support to charters and Small change to local public schools. But even in Arkansas, there is local pushback. The North Little…

Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
In the fifth year of my teaching at Cleveland’s Glenville high school–it was the early 1960s–I had already introduced materials to my classes on what was then called “Negro…

Originally posted on Cloaking Inequity:
So what happens when a President chooses a basketball buddy as Secretary of Education? Really, Obama… what did you expect when you chose a non-educator, non-expert to lead American education? A leader who left Chicago…

Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
As a novice U.S. history teacher in Cleveland (OH) in the mid-1950s, I began designing lessons that contained sources absent from students’ textbooks. While I used the textbook for…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
This is one of the best reviews of “Reign of Error” that I have read. Because it was written as an editorial, it didn’t go into close detail, as others have, but it…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
A reader sent this comment:   My daughter just started teaching in a Missouri School District known for being a very good school district. She is 2 months in and wants out. Paperwork,…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
This superb article in the Texas Observer by Patrick Michels is one of the most astute and hopeful I have read in months. It chronicles the idea of the school superintendent as super-hero: the…