Monthly Archives: October 2019

Originally posted on janresseger:
Last week should have been a bad week for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, but one wonders if it is possible to create a really meaningful punishment for somebody like Betsy DeVos—a punishment for allowing her staff…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Trump’s defenders say that he committed no actual crime. Professor Frank O. Bowman III it the University of Missouri Law School says that the Founding Fathers debated the issue of impeachment and purposely…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Jennifer Berkshire writes in the New Republic that Betsy DeVos is deeply unpopular in swing-state Michigan. Voters in Detroit can see a district disrupted by a generation of failed reforms. Suburban voters like…

Originally posted on janresseger:
The operation of wealth and power has never been more evident in Ohio school politics than it is this month. HUNTING VALLEY   In an op-ed this week, the retired editorial page director of the Cleveland…

Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
…the typical social media user spends 10 to 20 minutes on an app after opening it. With 56% of respondents claiming they log onto Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and other…

Originally posted on tultican:
By Thomas Ultican 10/24/2019 Elites living in upscale mostly white Dallas communities are spending heavily to privatize public schools. Dallas demographics are basically a three way split with Hispanics (41.7%), whites (29.1%) and blacks (24%). However,…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Evidently every part of the Trump administration believes it is above the law. The Washington Post reported today that the Education Department spent millions for student aid at for-profit colleges that were ineligible…

Originally posted on janresseger:
The education plan Elizabeth Warren released on Monday is urgently important. Today, I am not going to focus on the math—whether Warren’s plan can be funded by the wealth tax she has also proposed. Neither am…

Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog:
Democratic presidential hopeful and Massachusetts senator, Elizabeth Warren, has finally released her plan for education, entitled, “A Great Public School Education for Every Student.” Note that in Warren’s plan, the term, “public…