Another flawed study purporting to show that charters are superior to public schools. This one is co-authored by Paul E Peterson, a pro-charter ideologue and fellow at the right wing Hoover Institute. Like his Hoover colleague Erik Hanushek, Peterson crunches numbers...

https://nepc.colorado.edu/blog/how-nclb-still-destroying (You can access the links from inside the webpage) Nancy Bailey’s criticism of the top-down reading mandates of NCLB during the George Bush administration and the similar regime of Race to the Top pushed during...

This strategy of controlling, and destroying, public education through secretive, undemocratic selection of school district administrators by expensive corporate “head hunting” firms has become widespread since the Business Roundtable’s (BR) campaign for high stakes...

In response to an article in a parents magazine about the value of alternative seating, I wrote this piece about how my research team used team based learning (TBL) in our Teacher Ed undergraduate classes:...

Kudos to Mike Hutchinson for ferreting out the budget surpluses in the Oakland school district and exposing how the billionaire-supported school board has been hiding these surpluses while they cut local public school budgets. This immoral practice is at the heart of...