Daily Archives: September 14, 2018

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Glenn Kessler, whose column in the Washington Post is called “The Fact-Checker,” writes that Trump set a record today. He surpassed 5,000. That is, he has made 5,000 (actually 5,001) misleading or demonstrably…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
According to Politico Morning Education, the pro-voucher forces are throwing in the towel before the November referendum on Prop 305. Prop 305 would overturn a law passed last year to offer unlimited vouchers.…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
In 2016, the General Accounting Office—watchdog of the federal government—published a report warning about waste, fraud, and abuse by charter school operators. Every day, there are new reports of shady real estate deals…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Our society shows its disrespect for teachers by not paying them a salary they can live on without working a second job. In state after state, the powers that be have cut taxes,…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
TIME magazine has made the discovery that teachers in America are underpaid. North Carolina teacher Stuart Egan noticed that TIME had done a dramatic turnaround. So did I. But I thought of TIME’s…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
New York State Commissioner of Educatuon MaryEllen Elia defended the state tests in a letter to the editor of an upstate newspaper. What was interesting was what she did not say. She wrote:…

Originally posted on janresseger:
Yesterday, Ohio released school district report cards that reflect the test-and-punish theory that if we hold schools accountable for raising students’ test scores and graduation rates, teachers will somehow rise to the occasion and find a…