Monthly Archives: February 2021

Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog:
In January 2020, Commonweal Magazine asked me to review Doug Harris’ book about New Orleans charter schools, Charter School City. I completed my review in February 2020, but with the pandemic, my…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
I reviewed A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door in The New Republic. It is an important book that pulls together all the threads of the privatization movement and shows that their agenda is…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Mercedes Schneider comments here on the Biden administration’s unexpected and ridiculous decision to insist on another round of standardized tests in the middle of the pandemic. She begins: On February 22, 2021, acting…

Originally posted on janresseger:
I am a great fan of Eve Ewing’s book, Ghosts in the Schoolyard.  I have read the book twice, visited in Chicago some of the sites she describes, given the book to friends as a gift…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
One of our greatest allies for public schools in the nation is the remarkable Pastors for Texas Children. They are active every day in Texas, urging the public to support and fund their…

Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog:
On February 18, 2021, Louisiana governor, John Bel Edwards, announced that as of Monday, February 22, 2021, teachers and all other K12 school staff, daycare workers, and others have the green light…

Originally posted on janresseger:
Right now, after nearly a year since life shut down for COVID-19, things feel like a chaotic mess. Children in lots of places are not in school but are instead learning remotely at home.  Unemployment is…

Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Cartoonists, no doubt working from home during the pandemic, have continued to dip their pens in ink (and clicked through their software) to capture life in and out of…