Monthly Archives: December 2017

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
The National Grange, which represents rural communities across America, released this resolution. The Grange moves deliberately and thoughtfully before it takes a position. Its resolutions are initiated locally, then reviewed at the state…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Texas charter schools have a graduation rate overall of 62%, nearly 30 percentage points lower than the state’s public school. Results like this help to explain why public support for charters is dropping…

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John Merrow overheard a conversation in which someone compared Eva Moskowitz to Benito Mussolini. He made the trains run on time—the saying of his defenders—and she gets results: high test scores. Merrow used…

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The Huffington Post has been reviewing the thousands of religious and private schools that receive public funding through voucher programs and has discovered some ugly practices. Some of them teach hatred. Some refuse…

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A three-Judge appellate court in Virginia tossed out Shelly Simonds’ one-vote victory over a 17-year Republican incumbent. It invalidated one ballot, where the voter checked both names. That left the vote a tie.…

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Sara Stevenson, a middle school librarian in Austin (and a hero of this blog for her tireless advocacy) Reviews Daniel Koretz’s “The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better” in the Austin Statesman-American.…

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This is great news! Parents in Tennessee stopped the voucher bill again, as one of its key sponsors announced that he would not introduce the bill in the coming session due to parent…

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If you aren’t angry yet about the Trump Tax scam, you should be. This article in the New York Times clearly lays out how it will produce tax savings for private school families…

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In an article by veteran journalist Heather Vogell, ProPublica asks hard questions about alternative schools. The word “alternative” implies a choice. But in an era when the freedom to pick your school is…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
I reviewed Daniel Koretz’s book, “The Testing Charade” in the current issue of The New Republic. The review is behind a paywall, but you can get a free 30-day pass or a one-year…