California’s School Crisis

10% of California’s school districts are in serious budget trouble, with 91 reporting that they may be insolvent within two years and ten districts already there. While the situation looks bleak, it is an improvement over last…

Parent Teacher conferences. Twice a year,(or more), we sit down with our students’ parents and relay the good or bad news about their child. A parent teacher conference can go two ways, productive or non-productive. I recall many conferences, and many types of parents. The wonderful, supportive, parent, the hostile parent, the parent that won’t leave no matter how many times you stand up, the ones who just nod, the appreciative parents, the ones who share every aspect of their lives,…

NewTLA: Voice of Reform or Reaction Within UTLA?…

California Plans to Gut Higher Education

Poverty Diminishes Vocabulary

Left Wing Sellout in Chicago?

Toddlers To Pay for Corporate Tax Break in Iowa

Ed Reform 2011: NCLB Out and Parental Rights In?

Mississippi To Require Civil Rights Classes While Beating Its Students

Brown to Unions: Thanks for Cash, Now Piss Off…

Public Executions or Public Education?

Interns Are Highly Qualified?

CTA Supports Education Cuts…

Executive Hubris or Business as Usual?…

Working Class Hostility Toward Jersey & Philly Teachers

March 2011 - National Month of Actions to Defend Public Education

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Worst Time Ever to Be A Teacher

Bad Week For School Boards—Bad Year for Most Everyone

Will Firing 5-10% of Teachers Make Us Finland?

The 5-10% Solution, was written by Matthew di Carlo, and originally published on the Shanker Blog, and then reposted on Valerie Strass' The Answer Sheet.





In the world of education policy, the following assertion has…

Continued Violence Against Students—This Time Rome