Daily Archives: September 5, 2018

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Let’s hear it for Rahm Emanuel. He is not running for a third term. He boasts about his education record. He closed 50 public schools in a single day. That was historic! Some…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Corporate reformers have touted the New Orleans “transformation” as proof that privatization works. The recipe is simple: First, get a natural disaster to wipe out all the public schools. Then, fire all the…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Governor Doug Ducey added two new members to the Arizona Supreme Court to ensure that the court would strike down an effort to raise the state income tax off the ballot in November.…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Wendy Lecker is a civil rights attorney at the Education Law Center who is a columnist for the Hearst Connecticut Media Group. She writes about a powerful new movement: My 18-year “career” as…

Originally posted on janresseger:
The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) has been shut down, but fortunately in this election season there may be more accountability than anybody who has been watching this long, long story unfold might have expected.  In…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
The Gates Foundation has a new idea: it is putting $92 Million into “networks.” For the Gates Foundation, this small amount is more like a tip than an investment. The writer for “Inside…