Monthly Archives: October 2018

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Denis Smith worked for many years for the Ohio Department of Education. When he retired, he was employed in the office that oversees charter schools. He has written many articles about the scams…

Originally posted on janresseger:
In an extraordinary photo essay, USA Today profiled a day in the life of 15 teachers who work in public schools across the United States.  As we approach election day next week, here is how that…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Ethan Siegel, a senior contributor to Forbes, understood what was happening to public education well before the wave of teacher strikes in the spring of 2018. America was literally destroying public education with…

Originally posted on janresseger:
I have read Eliza Shapiro’s reporting in POLITICO for years and I respect her as a reporter, but her story in Friday’s NY Times baffles me: New York Knew Some Schools In Its $773 Million Plan…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Amy Lueck writes in this article about the role of the high school in shaping American society and building a sense of community, an understanding that these children are OUR children. She begins:…

Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog:
On October 17, 2018, ACT released a report, “Condition of College and Career Readiness 2018.” Beginning with the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in January 2002, standardized testing has increasingly…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
As Leonie Haimson explains in this post, the New York Times published a front-page article on the failure of Mayor Bill deBlasio’s $773 Million Renewal Schools Program. The Mayor touted it as the…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
This is an important collection of data about the funding of public schools and charter schools in Texas. Do you think that taxpayers know that they are funding two separate school systems, one…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Earlier today, I posted about FUD, but I didn’t link to the article I wrote in Huffington Post in 2014. The article was called “Understanding the Propaganda Campaign Against Public Education.” Here it…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Ruth Conniff, editor of “The Progressive,” suggests that the Save Our Schools Movement could be the determining factor in the midterm elections. She writes: The “education spring” protests, in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona,…