Daily Archives: February 14, 2018

Originally posted on caffeinated rage:
Michelle Rhee’s visit to North Carolina for a “closed-door” meeting (February 7th)) with lawmakers in the current climate of public education in this country and in the state should not sit well with public school…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Check out this poll. Maybe that’s one reason Chris Christie became the most unpopular governor in the state. He constantly bashed teachers and public schools. As Daniel S. Katz says, good riddance to…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
? Margaret Good won a special election to the Florida House yesterday. Supporting public education was one of the major planks in her platform. She flipped a seat in a district Trump won…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
? Betsy DeVos has energized resistance to the privatization movement. She has stripped away the mask of Democratic support for privatization. She supports charters and vouchers. Trump supports charters and vouchers. Charters are…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
? A Rocketship Charter in Nashville was slated to be part of the state’s failed Achievement School District  but it closed a few months after opening. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2018/02/01/nashville-achievement-school-district-rocketship-nashville-partners-community-prep/1087161001/ The school expected  to enroll 190 students…

Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
The answer is yes. I begin with a history of how policy elites politically defined “success” in school reform between the late 19th century and mid-20th century. In those…

Originally posted on janresseger:
Last week Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Secretary of Education, marked her first year in office with a news conference where she announced that her greatest accomplishment has been diminishing the role of her department. For the…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
? Tulsa has trouble finding and retaining teachers. It may be due to the fact that Oklahoma has low teacher pay, perhaps the lowest in the country. The district is responding to the…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
? In a major ruling for school integration, the 11th Circuit Federal Appeals Court ruled that Gardendale can’t spliy away to form its own district because its motives were to resegregation.  “A federal…