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December 2020

1. 31 DecFred Smith: The Night Before New Year’s
2. 31 Dec“It’s All About the Benjamins.” But What Do We Call a $1,000 Bill?
3. 31 DecGeorge Packer: The Legacy of Donald Trump
4. 31 DecTrump Allies Gear Up for Final Effort to Overturn the Election
5. 31 DecRick Hess Interviews Betsy DeVos As She Heads for the Exit
6. 30 DecWebsite Created by Gates Foundation Leaves Open Personal Data of Hundreds of Thousands of Students
7. 30 DecMasha Gessen on Trump’s Defining Trait: Indifference
8. 30 DecPeter Goodman: Who is Miguel Cardona?
9. 30 DecSteve Nelson: Farewell to the Worst Secretary of Education Ever!
10. 30 DecRandy Wieck: A Drive-By Looting of Pension Funds in Kentucky
11. 29 DecIrish Times: Trump Is Not Yet Finished Destroying Our Government
12. 29 DecWashington Post: Could Trump Declare Martial Law and Steal the Election?
13. 29 DecDana Milbank: Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville is Making a Strong Bid to Be the Senate’s Dimmest Member
14. 29 DecWhat Joe Biden Said About Charter Schools During the Campaign
15. 29 DecTrump Issues Order for Back-Door Vouchers
16. 28 DecDavid Ignatius: Does Trump Have an Evil Plan for January 6?
17. 28 DecWashington Post: What Trump’s Allies Will Do on January 6
18. 28 DecConnecticut: A Teacher Remembers Cardona
19. 28 DecMiguel Cardona Accepts Biden Nomination
20. 27 DecDana Milbank: Senator Ron Johnson Is Undermining Our Democracy
21. 27 DecWashington Post: How Trump’s Denial and Mismanagement Worsened COVID
22. 27 DecWendy Lecker: Two Books That Demonstrate Why Public Education Matters
23. 27 DecPeter Greene: Phooey to Resuming the Big Standardized Tests
24. 26 DecMy Interview on “Democracy Now”
25. 26 DecAndrea Gabor: First Tasks for Secretary Cardona: Cancel Standardized Testing, Pursue Equity
26. 26 DecIf You Love Public Higher Education, Fight for It
27. 25 DecMerry Christmas to All!
28. 25 DecChristmas Gift for You: The Trump Countdown Clock
29. 25 DecSnopes: The True Story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
30. 25 DecYes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus: It’s Called Public Education
31. 24 DecBiden Picks Former President of Broad Foundation as Deputy Chief of Staff
32. 24 DecFred Smith: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
33. 24 DecMy Review of Three Important Books About Education
34. 24 DecJohn Thompson in Oklahoma: Grifters Gonna Keep Grifting
35. 24 DecMassive Tax Giveaways Tucked into COVID Relief Bill
36. 23 DecEducation Week: Where Cardona Stands on the Issues
37. 23 DecPennsylvania: For-Profit Charter Destroys Public School District
38. 23 DecEducation Week: What Is in the COVID Relief Bill for K-12 Schools?
39. 23 DecPolitico: Will Dr. Cardona Push 2021 Testing?
40. 23 DecDoyle and Sahlberg: After the Pandemic, Children Need to Play
41. 22 DecTune In Tomorrow Morning to “Democracy Now”
42. 22 DecBiden Picks Connecticut Commissioner Miguel Cardonas as Secretary of Education
43. 22 DecNancy Bailey: The Critique of Dr. Biden’s Credentials Was an Attack on Teachers and Public Schools
44. 22 DecLou Dobbs Forced to Retract Libelous Claims on Air
45. 22 DecLaura Chapman: Charters in Ohio Shaking the PPP Money Tree
46. 21 DecDr. Leslie T. Fenwick for Secretary of Education
47. 21 DecBill Barr: No Need for Special Counsel to Investigate Election or Hunter Biden
48. 21 DecCapital & Main: Five Ways to “De-DeVos” the U.S. Department of Education
49. 21 DecJohn Thompson on Ta-Nehisi Coates and Bruce Springsteen
50. 21 DecBrian Stelter: Rightwing Media Are Promoting Dangerous Radicalization
51. 21 DecWhat the Congressional Deal Means for Education
52. 20 DecWill New Federal Funding Shower Money on Private Schools?
53. 20 DecHappy Birthday, Sandra Cisneros!
54. 20 DecLos Angeles: Billionaire-funded Group Complains about Remote Learning Pact
55. 20 DecArizona Charters Hit Jackpot with Federal Paycheck Protection Program
56. 20 DecRepublican Leader: The Election Is Over
57. 20 DecMissouri Grants First Charter Outside Two Biggest Districts
58. 20 DecThe Madness of King Donald
59. 19 DecRussian Spies Hack into Major Goverment Agencies
60. 19 DecHow the Trump Administration Tried to Destroy the CDC
61. 19 DecPolitico: Will Biden Bring Teachers’ Unions in from the Cold?
62. 19 DecNew York City: Pandemic Leads de Blasio to Drop Screens for Middle School Admissions
63. 18 DecIn Last Gasp Move, Trump Appoints Members of His Patriotic Commission
64. 18 DecBorowitz: Betsy DeVos Leaves with a Warning
65. 18 DecJeff Bezos: A Not-So-Good Billionaire?
66. 18 DecMcKenzie Scott: A Good Billionaire?
67. 18 DecLorrie A. Shepard: Testing Students This Spring Would Be a Mistake
68. 18 DecEdutopia: The Ten Most Significant Education Studies of 2020
69. 18 DecThe Snow Day Letter That Went Viral
70. 17 DecAl Gore: A Time for Hope, At Last
71. 17 DecThe Hill: Lily Eskelsen Garcia Is Leading Candidate for ED Job
72. 17 DecReport: Two New Top Contenders for Secretary of Education
73. 16 DecMichael Gerson: The Moral Hypocrisy of Conservative Leaders
74. 16 DecNancy Flanagan: Norms, Ethics, and Civility
75. 16 DecCarol Burris: How Charter Schools Cashed in on the Paycheck Protection Program
76. 15 DecThree Big-City Superintendents: We Need a Marshall Plan for Our Schools: Now!
77. 15 DecNancy Bailey: McKinsey Says It is Time for Schools to Get Tough with the Students
78. 15 DecPaul Peterson: “No, Al Shanker Did Not Invent the Charter School”
79. 14 DecWall Street Journal: Time for Trump to Concede
80. 14 DecJames Hohmann: Michigan Capitol Locked Down As Electoral College Meets
81. 14 DecShould an Ed.D. or Ph.D. Be Called “Doctor?”
82. 14 DecTrump Appoints Unqualified People to Education Research Advisory Board
83. 14 DecMike Klonsky: The Shame of a Nation
84. 13 DecGregB. Recommends Essential Reading
85. 13 DecTwitter Frauds and Their Followers
86. 13 DecArthur Camins: My Hopes and Dreams for My Grandchildren’s Education
87. 13 DecDevelopers of COVID Vaccine Are Children of Turkish Immigrants to Germany
88. 12 DecMy Suggestion for Holiday Gifts
89. 12 DecBob Shepherd: How “Reform” Ruined Teaching
90. 12 DecFlorida: Leader of Closed Charter School Indicted for Embezzlement
91. 12 DecTeresa Thayer Snyder: What Shall We Do About the Children After the Pandemic
92. 11 DecBreaking News! U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Texas Effort to Overturn Election!
93. 11 DecTo Joe Biden: Save America’s Children from “Poisonous Pedagogy”
94. 11 DecNancy Bailey: Children Are Suffering Anxiety and Depression at Record Rates
95. 11 DecThomas Ultican: The EdTech Foxes Are Inside the Biden Henhouse!
96. 11 DecPer Kornhall: The Great Swedish Child Experiment: A Failure
97. 10 DecFOX News, WSJ Are Shocked, Shocked that Biden Might Appoint a Leader of a Teachers’ Union as Secretary of Education
98. 10 DecGuiliani Leaves Hospital After Receiving Special Treatment
99. 10 DecFAIR: Why Is the New York Times Cheerleading to Reopen Schools?
100. 10 DecSuspend High-Stakes Testing for Spring 2021! Add Your Name!
101. 10 DecSomeDAM Poet: Education Needs Variation, Not Standardization
102. 10 DecJan Resseger: Good News Before Christmas
103. 9 DecFlorina Rodov: Why I Stopped Teaching in a Charter School
104. 9 DecAndy Hargreaves: After the Pandemic, Austerity or Prosperity?
105. 9 DecOakland School Board Election: Money Can’t Buy Everything
106. 9 DecJeff Bryant: What Is Worse Than DeVos?
107. 8 DecSonali Kolhatkar: Will Biden Reunite My Family?
108. 8 DecCaroline Guiliani Offers Self-Care Tips for Those Who Accept Reality and Concede Defeat
109. 8 DecTim Schwab: Is Bill Gates Undermining Public Health Data?
110. 8 DecBreaking News! Oklahoma Gov. Stitt Removes New Member of State Board of Education
111. 7 DecFrank G. Splitt: The Legacy of Trumpism
112. 7 DecThe CEO of Dominion Voting Systems Answers Trump Campaign Claims
113. 7 DecMore than Half the Funds in CARES PPP Went to 5% of Recipients
114. 7 DecSteven Singer: “The Silence of Our Friends” is the Worst Part of the Pandemic
115. 6 DecThe Grinches of Georgia
116. 6 DecAssociated Press: The Best Photographs of the Year
117. 6 DecOklahoma: Governor Stitt Appoints Home-Schooling Anti-Masker to State Board of Education
118. 6 DecTennessee: Why Do Failed Reforms Survive, Only to Fail Again?
119. 6 DecJennifer Berkshire and Jack Scheider: What Betsy DeVos Accomplished
120. 5 DecPodcast: How Success Academy Charters Violate Their Students’ Rights
121. 5 DecTom Ultican: When Tech Philanthropists Support EdTech, Beware!
122. 5 DecTeacher Burnout in the Pandemic
123. 5 DecTrump Loses Six More Court Cases
124. 4 DecMatt Farmer: (Who’s Gonna) Pardon Me?
125. 4 DecFarhad Manjoo: The Pandemic Brings Good Times to Billionaires
126. 4 DecBob Shepherd: The Standardized Testing Hoax
127. 4 DecCarol Burris: DeVos Gave $1.2 Million of Federal Funds to a Soccer Club to Open a Charter School
128. 3 DecNancy MacLean: How the Koch Network Fosters Disinformation
129. 3 DecHouston: Why HISD Should Have the Best Teachers in the Nation By Now
130. 3 DecTexas: Republicans Fighting to Defund Lobbying for Public Institutions, Including Public Schools
131. 3 DecTrump Delivers 46-Minute Rant Against Election, Insists He Won All States
132. 2 DecNews from the Network for Public Education
133. 2 DecGrowing Consensus that Young Children Can Safely Return to School
134. 2 DecGrantland Rice: Advice to Trump
135. 2 DecQAnon Conspiracists Target Georgia
136. 2 DecGeorgia: Election Official Condemns Trump’s Attacks on Election: “This Has to Stop”
137. 1 DecBill Barr: No Widespread Fraud in 2020 Election
138. 1 DecAndrea Gabor: We Need Civics Education!
139. 1 DecProPublica: Trump and Barr Want to Restore Death by Firing Squad
140. 1 DecPaul Bonner: Testing Does Not Help Students
141. 1 DecNAEP 2021 Has Been Canceled. State Tests Should Also Be Canceled.

November 2020

1. 30 NovTrump Legal Team Asks Federal Court to Overturn Michigan Election Results
2. 30 NovMichigan: The One Republican Who Stood Up to Trump
3. 30 NovMike Klonsky: The Supreme Court’s Dangerous Decision
4. 30 NovThe Washington Post Berates Unprincipled Rubio
5. 30 NovBrianna Keillor Takes Down Marco Rubio for Mocking Education
6. 28 NovTrump’s Rush to Cripple the Federal Government
7. 28 NovHappy Birthday, William Blake!
8. 27 NovPope Francis: What Would He Say to Our Supreme Court about COVID?
9. 27 NovU.S. Supreme Court Rejects Limits on Religious Gatherings
10. 26 NovHappy, Complicated Thanksgiving!
11. 25 NovSomeDam Poet: Privatize the Planet
12. 25 NovDenver: Turmoil Over Superintendent’s Exit
13. 25 NovLaura Chapman: Who Is Behind the “Read by Third Grade or Be Retained” Campaign?
14. 25 NovLos Angeles: Charter School Games the System for More $$$
15. 25 NovWhy I Object to the Term “Science of Reading”
16. 24 NovMarco Rubio Says He Will Oppose Biden’s Cabinet Choices
17. 24 NovKevin Welner: The Urgent De-Vos-Ing of the Department of Education
18. 24 NovWhat Happened to the School in New Orleans That Was First to Desegregate?
19. 24 NovWhat My High School Did for One Student
20. 24 NovTo Test or Not to Test, That Is the Question
21. 23 NovThe Most Outrageous Effort to Overturn an Election in U.S. History
22. 23 NovPhiladelphia: Former Chief Financial Officer of Charter School Charged with Huge Embezzlement
23. 23 NovPeter Greene: Betsy DeVos’s “Voucherland”
24. 23 NovMissouri: Leaders in St. Louis County Say “No” to New Charter School
25. 22 NovJustin Parmenter: Don’t Blame Educators Who Get COVID
26. 22 NovBurbank: Parents and District Debate Banning Books
27. 22 NovMercedes Schneider Reviews Douglas Harris’s Book About New Orleans
28. 22 NovPresident-Elect Biden: Keep Your Promises!
29. 21 NovCharles Foster Johnson Is Hopeful about Biden Administration and Education
30. 21 NovJan Resseger: Ohio Legislature Slips Through More Voucher Legislation
31. 21 NovIn the Public Interest: Beware the Privatization Racket!
32. 21 NovReport from South Carolina: Rasheem and LaRonda
33. 20 NovDave Pell: The Insane Clown Posse
34. 20 NovJohn Ogozalek: Lots of Money for Standardized Tests, No Money for COVID Tests
35. 20 NovDerek Black: State Courts Turn Back Voucher Cases
36. 20 NovRob Schofield: This Land Belongs to You and Me, Not the Privatizers
37. 20 NovJohann Neem: Restoring the Promise of Public Education
38. 19 NovSomeDAM Poet: The Billionaire and the Reformer
39. 19 NovWhat Does NAEP Really Tell Us?
40. 19 NovCarol Burris: The Secretary of Education We Need–and Those We Don’t
41. 19 NovFederal Judge Permanently Bars DeVos from Diverting CARES Funds to Private Schools
42. 18 NovNYC Schools Will Close, Despite Low Infection Rates in Schools
43. 18 NovNYC Parents Criticize de Blasio for His Inflexibilty
44. 18 NovArthur Camins: How Do We Persuade Nearly Half of Voters that A Better Society for All is Good for Them Too?
45. 18 NovNancy Bailey: Business Terms Should Be Expelled from Our Schools
46. 18 NovPeter Greene: What the Charter Industry Hates About the Biden Plan
47. 18 NovOklahoma: Governor Removes Chair of Virtual Charter Board Who Was Cleaning Up Conflicts ofInterest
48. 18 NovTrump Fires Director of Election Security for Saying the Election Was Fair
49. 17 NovTrump Administration Hurries to Auction Off Alaska Wilderness for Drilling
50. 17 NovDenis Smith: “I’m Alive. Nobody Else Is…They’re All Dead.”
51. 17 NovJohn Thompson: COVID and Schools in Oklahoma
52. 17 NovNancy Flanagan: Public Schools Must Remain Public
53. 17 NovLaura Chapman Reviews the Biden Transition Team for Education
54. 16 NovA Fresh Portrayal of Abolitionist John Brown
55. 16 NovJohn Merrow: Trump’s 73 Million Voters: Can We Talk?
56. 16 NovGood News for Me
57. 16 NovHow FOX News Foiled Trump’s Plans to Steal the Election
58. 16 NovEpidemiologist: How to Reopen Schools Safely
59. 15 NovPolitico: Student Loan Chaos Looms as Deadline Approaches
60. 15 NovTrump Continues to Rant about “Rigged” Election
61. 15 NovWatch As Kevin Welner and I discuss His New Book “Potential Grizzlies”
62. 15 NovSam Wineburg and Nadav Ziv: We Must Teach Students to Recognize Misinformation
63. 15 NovTom Ultican: EdTech Spending in North Carolina is Running Wild
64. 14 NovI’m in Quarantine
65. 14 NovIn the Public Interest: Some Good News from the 2020 Elections
66. 14 NovIndiana: Public Schools Lose $100 Million due to Pandemic
67. 14 NovRhode Island: Critics Object to Charter Expansion Plans
68. 14 NovCNN: Europe Locks Down but Keeps Schools Open
69. 13 NovMichigan Judge Rejects GOP Appeal to Block Certification of Vote
70. 13 NovMaine: Federal Appeals Court Upholds Maine Refusal to Fund Religious Schools
71. 13 NovRochester, NY: Parents and Educators Object to Charter Leader on School Board
72. 13 NovValerie Strauss: What Does the Biden Transition Team Tell Us About His Education Agenda?
73. 13 NovTom Ultican: School Board Elections Pit Billionaires vs. Public School Advocates
74. 13 NovA Statement by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: No Coup
75. 12 NovPennsylvania Lt. Gov. Wants $1 Million Reward for Finding Voter Fraud
76. 12 NovPeter Greene: My Small District Did Not Dodge COVID-19
77. 12 NovBiden Aide Describes His Education Goals
78. 12 NovSteven Singer: Five Reasons to Be Cautiously Optimistic about Biden
79. 12 NovMitchell Robinson: How to Make America Great
80. 12 NovTrump Continues to Bluster, But Hints He Will Run in 2024
81. 11 NovGOP Lawsuit in Arizona Flounders
82. 11 NovHow Trump Appointee Has Blocked Biden Transition
83. 11 NovNew York City: Virtual Forum on the Double Crisis in the Schools
84. 11 NovCalifornia: Prop 15 Defeated, No New Funding for Schools
85. 11 NovIs Trump Planning a Military Coup?
86. 11 NovJohn Young: What the Stars in Our Flag Mean Today
87. 11 NovMontana Teacher: Try to Understand Rural Voters
88. 11 NovBiden Campaign Names Transition Team for Education
89. 10 NovJames Hochman: Trump Pushes His People into Career Jobs to Preserve Trumpism
90. 10 NovGoodbye, Betsy DeVos: You Won’t Be Missed!
91. 10 NovGoodbye, Ivanka: I Will Never think of You Again
92. 10 NovPasi Sahlberg: Will the Pandemic Enable Us to Make Education More Equitable?
93. 10 NovJan Resseger: Biden Campaign Promises Were Bold and Necessary
94. 9 NovBiden Announces Coronavirus Task Force: Science Rules!
95. 9 NovSteve Ruis: Trump Is Sabotaging the Transition, as He Sabotaged His Own
96. 9 NovMy View: Why Trump’s “1776 Commission” Is a Very Bad Idea
97. 9 NovLinda Darling-Hammond Says She Does Not Want to Be Secretary of Education
98. 9 NovBoston Globe: How Trump Might Try to Sabotage the Election
99. 9 NovCarol Burris and I: What We Hope Biden’s Secretary of Education Will Do
100. 9 NovWith Giuliani at the Four Seasons Landscaping Venue
101. 8 NovTexas: What I Said to Public Education Advocates
102. 8 NovDenisha Jones and I Talk about Election and Education
103. 8 NovIllinois: Feds Slap Gulen Charters with Big Fine
104. 8 NovMercedes Schneider to Biden: Please Choose a Real Teacher for Secretary of Education
105. 8 NovHilarious Trump Press Conference in Philadelphia
106. 8 NovTop Republicans Refuse to Congratulate Biden
107. 7 NovDana Milbank: Republicans’ Frivolous Lawsuits
108. 7 NovJohn Thompson Reviews “A Modern Masterpiece” for Young People
109. 7 NovPresident-Elect Joe Biden!
110. 7 NovNew York: Board of Regents Cancel January Exams
111. 7 NovOakland: Public School Allies Win Control of School Board
112. 7 NovArizona: Voters Approve Tax on Rich to Fund Public Schools
113. 6 NovRobert Kuttner: Can We Make a Deal to Get Trump Out Sooner than January 20?
114. 6 NovPastors for Texas Children on the Election Results
115. 6 NovDavid Dayen: Will There Be a Stimulus Bill?
116. 6 NovDFER Names Its Candidates for Secretary of Education
117. 6 NovChicago Public Schools to Reopen After Installing Air Purifiers
118. 5 NovWould Mitch McConnell Destroy Biden’s Presidency?
119. 5 NovRobert Kuttner: Can Biden Govern with a Republican Senate?
120. 5 NovLos Angeles: Billionaires Buy Control of School Board
121. 5 NovOhio: The Cost of “School Choice”
122. 4 NovArthur Goldstein: Who We Are
123. 4 Nov“A Low Dishonest Decade”–W.H. Auden
124. 4 NovJeff Bryant: How Bad Leadership Created a Crisis for Public Schools During the Pandemic
125. 4 NovTrump Creates His “Patriotic Education” Commission
126. 4 NovGregB: The Confederacy Won
127. 4 NovA Bad Night
128. 3 NovHow To Survive A Knife Attack
129. 3 NovFlash! Contents of Hunter Biden Laptop Revealed!
130. 3 NovA Delightful Trip Down Memory Lane
131. 3 NovOur Leading Politicians Strut Their Stuff
132. 3 NovThe Dog Who Thought He Was a Horse
133. 3 NovA Person Born in 1900 Experienced These Events…
134. 3 NovTrump and the Wizard of Oz
135. 3 NovEnjoy This Spectacular Comedy Trapeze Act
136. 3 NovHow to Relax When You Are Stressed Out
137. 3 NovA Few Beautiful Moments of Dance, for Your Enjoyment
138. 3 NovIs Trump “The Chosen One”?
139. 3 NovDo You Love Animals? You Will Love This Video!
140. 3 NovJohnny Carson’s Singing Dog Contest, 1987
141. 3 NovDoris Day with Good Advice for You
142. 3 NovMy Plan for Election Day
143. 2 NovJan Resseger: What Is at Stake Tomorrow?
144. 2 NovTexas: Federal Judge Rejects GOP Effort to Toss Out Ballots in Harris County
145. 2 NovMarc Anthony Urges His Fellow Puerto Ricans to Vote
146. 2 NovJane Mayer: Why Trump Is Afraid of Losing
147. 2 NovBeware the “Betsy DeVos of Washington State”
148. 2 NovDavid Bentley Hart: What’s Wrong with Socialism?
149. 2 NovNorth Carolina: Police Use Pepper Spray on Peaceful Black Protestors
150. 2 NovVote As If Your Life Depends Upon It: It Does
151. 2 NovACLU Sues to Block Voter Suppression in Houston
152. 2 Nov“Give People Light, and They Will Find a Way”
153. 2 NovWinston Churchill on the Essence of Democracy
154. 1 NovNorth Carolina: Why You Should Vote for Jen Mangrum for State Superintendent
155. 1 NovTimothy Snyder: This Is Not a Normal Election
156. 1 NovBetsy DeVos: “Shame”
157. 1 NovOhio: ECOT Treasurer Offers to Help State Recover Millions from Charter Operator
158. 1 NovTelevangelist Warns That if Biden Wins, People Will Start Having Sex with Cattle
159. 1 NovBob Shepherd: Can We Survive Kakistocracy?
160. 1 NovNBC News Investigates the Hunter Biden Laptop Story

October 2020

1. 31 OctTexas: Trump Supporters Blockade Biden Campaign Bus, Forcing Event Cancellation
2. 31 OctGeorge T. Conway III: I Believe the President
3. 31 OctMercedes Schneider: Surviving Hurricanes, COVID, and DeVos
4. 31 OctThe Cast of “Hamilton” Sings: VOTE!
5. 31 OctJesse Jackson: Black Americans Are Not Fooled by Trump’s Lies
6. 31 OctTexas Parent PAC: A Model of Action for Every State
7. 30 OctTrump Regime Expels Immigrant Children to Mexico, Not Their Home Country
8. 30 OctTrump Appointee Seeks to Destroy Voice of America
9. 30 OctFlorida: Voucher Schools Still Firing Gay Teachers
10. 30 OctNew York City: Double-Dipping Charters Got 4x as Much Federal CARES $$ as Public Schools
11. 30 OctOhio: No Accountability for This Virtual Charter
12. 30 OctJennifer Berkshire: Will Education Cause The GOP to Lose Arizona?
13. 29 OctHandwriting Expert Analyzes Trump’s Signature
14. 29 OctLos Angeles School Board Race: Dirty and Expensive
15. 29 OctNorth Carolina: Elect Supporters of Public Schools!
16. 29 OctIndianapolis: Stop the Billionaires from Capturing Our School Board!
17. 29 OctPeter Greene: Secretary DeVos Should Help or Pipe Down
18. 29 OctNAEP 12th Grade Scores: Unchanged Since 2005
19. 29 OctRachel Cohen: Emily Oster Was Too Optimistic about Children and COVID
20. 29 Oct“The Economist” Endorses Joe Biden
21. 28 OctJared Kushner: Trump Knows More than the Doctors!
22. 28 OctAdd Your Name to the “Democracy Declaration”
23. 28 OctTrump Accuses Nation’s Doctors of Inflating COVID Death Count to Hurt Him
24. 28 OctDanny Feingold: Why Californians Should Approve Three Ballot Propositions
25. 28 OctBill Moyers Recommends These Documentaries Before Election Day
26. 28 OctThe Guardian Endorses Joe Biden
27. 28 OctHappy Birthday, Sylvia Plath
28. 27 OctWashington Post Fact-Checker: Trump Passes 22,000 False Claims, Now Averaging 50 per Day
29. 27 OctSam Wineburg on Teaching History
30. 27 OctMontana: Libertarians Fight Masks While Infections Rise
31. 27 OctBetsy DeVos Tells Kentucky That Now is the Time for Charters and Vouchers
32. 26 OctThe Absurdity of Privatizing Essential Government Services
33. 26 OctSenator Sheldon Whitehouse Explains Dark Money and Its Corruption of Our Democracy
34. 26 OctTrump’s Radical Attack on the Federal Civil Service
35. 26 OctJohn Thompson: Instead of Funding Public Schools, Oklahoma Bankrolled a For-Profit Virtual Charter
36. 25 OctJames Hohmann: Obama Takes on Trump
37. 25 OctThe New Republic: “Newsweek” Has Turned into “A Zombie Magazine”
38. 25 OctReimagining Capitalism in Chelsea, Massachusetts
39. 25 OctThe Most Important Radical Rightwing Group You Never Heard of
40. 25 OctSacramento: Vote for the Pro-Public School Candidates!
41. 24 OctNPE Action Endorses Sarah Schultz for Michigan House of Representatives
42. 24 OctHistorian: How Do Pandemics End? Most Don’t.
43. 24 OctDo Communities Need Competing Police and Fire Departments?
44. 24 OctOhio: The Staggering Cost of Privatization of Public Money
45. 24 OctThe Future of Public Education is on the Ballot on November 3! Vote!
46. 24 OctNPE Action Endorses Melissa Romano for Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction!
47. 24 OctLos Angeles: Support Scott!!
48. 23 OctTrump, Pence, and Sessions Kidnapped 545 Children
49. 23 OctDana Milbank: McConnell “Helps” Working Families by Blocking Relief Bill
50. 23 OctAnya Kamenetz: Are the Risks of Reopening Schools Exaggerated?
51. 23 OctNew York Teacher: Suspend Annual Testing and Focus on Student Needs
52. 23 OctCalling Joe Biden: You Promised to Cut Back Federal Testing Mandates, Remember?
53. 23 OctOakland, California: Elect a Slate of Pro-Public School Candidates!
54. 23 OctThe Last Presidential Debate
55. 22 OctToday is the Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis
56. 22 OctCalifornia: Charter Industry Pours Money into Santa Clara School Board Election
57. 22 OctTIME: The Swedish Approach to COVID-19 is a “Disaster”
58. 22 OctWhat Happened When a Nice Guy Ran Against a QAnon Candidate
59. 22 OctHow Many Justices Should Be on the Supreme Court?
60. 22 OctPlease Help Our Friend Joyce Elliott in Arkansas!
61. 21 OctLaw Professor: Barrett’s “Originalism” Is Incoherent
62. 21 OctThe Reading Wars Are Over! Lucy Calkins Endorses Phonics
63. 21 OctFormer Director of CDC: The Pursuit of “Herd Immunity” Would Cost Half a Million Lives
64. 21 OctJan Resseger: An “Originalist” Judge Cannot Understand Education
65. 21 OctMichigan: Gary Peters Deserves Our Support
66. 20 OctTrump’s Coronavirus Advisor Says Masks Are Ineffective; Experts Say He is Wrong
67. 20 OctCommonweal: Stop Using Catholic Schools to Shame Public Schools
68. 20 OctWashington Post: Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force Squabbles Over Direction
69. 20 OctBrookings: What Happens if the Supreme Court Overturns Obamacare?
70. 20 OctStephen Dyer Evaluates Flawed Fordham Charter Report
71. 19 OctGood News! New York City’s Public Schools Are Surprisingly Safe
72. 19 Oct“Financial Times”: Is QAnon a Game Gone Wrong?
73. 19 OctSteven Singer: An “Originalist” View of Public Schools
74. 18 OctWhitmer to Trump: Stop Targeting Me
75. 18 OctNancy Bailey: Charter Schools Use Pandemic as a Marketing Opportunity
76. 18 OctLaura Chapman: Can Teachers Be Measured by the Same Methods Used for Cows?
77. 18 OctArizona: Gov. Ducey Blasts Referendum to Increase $$$ for Education
78. 18 OctEdWeek: Teacher Evaluations Resume, Despite Pandemic and Chaotic Conditions
79. 18 OctThe New York Times: Trump Is “the Worst American President in Modern History”
80. 18 OctSee This NBC Documentary
81. 17 OctRobert Kuttner: How Trump Might Overturn the Election
82. 17 OctOklahoma: State Begins Contract Termination Process for Epic Charter Schools
83. 17 OctPeter Greene: Watch Out, Maine, the Charter Pushers Have a New Name, Same Game
84. 17 OctIndiana: ACB Served on the Board of a School That Discriminated Against Gays
85. 17 OctProPublica: How the Trump Administration Tried to Destroy the CDC
86. 17 OctMore than 1,000 CDC officers Condemn U.S. Response to Pandemic
87. 16 OctWatch Katharine Stewart and Me Discuss the Assault on Public Schools
88. 16 OctCaroline Rose Guiliani: Why You Should Vote for Biden & Harris
89. 16 OctEconomic Policy Institute: Teachers Pay a Penalty for Teaching
90. 16 OctWired: Trump’s “Miracle Cure” is a Logistical Nightmare
91. 16 OctFix America by Reversing Decades of Privatization
92. 16 Oct“Originalist” Would Not Permit Women on the Court
93. 15 OctNetwork for Public Education Action Endorses Three More Senate Candidates
94. 15 OctHow Does ACB’s “Originalism” Connect to 2020 Medical Care?
95. 15 OctSenator Whitehouse Exposes Rightwing Network Funding Attacks on Democracy
96. 15 OctJohn Merrow: Do Not Commit the 8th Deadly Sin
97. 15 OctMercedes Schneider: The Meteoric Rise, Fall, and Rise of a Reformer
98. 15 OctRhode Island: A Must-Read Court Decision!
99. 14 OctThe Blog Just Passed 37 Million Page Views
100. 14 OctOne Week from Today, I Will Be Speaking to Education Activists in Texas
101. 14 OctNASSP Honors Philadelphia Principal as “Principal of the Year”
102. 14 OctThe Swamp of Trump
103. 14 OctJennifer Rubin: How Congress Can Limit the Reach of the Trump Court
104. 14 OctCharles Koch Is Big Winner with Barrett Nomination
105. 14 OctOhio: Who Pays for Vouchers?
106. 13 OctThe Network for Public Education Action Endorses Senate Candidates!
107. 13 OctBetsy DeVos’ Group Pours Money into Missouri Races
108. 13 OctNew York City: Top Education Aide Joins XQ
109. 13 OctThe Limits of School Choice
110. 12 OctA Medical Scientist Speaks Out About Children and COVID
111. 12 OctBob Shepherd: The Hoax of Standardized Testing
112. 12 OctPeter Goodman on Bill Gates’ Next Big Idea
113. 12 OctJohn Thompson Reviews “School’s Out” About Pandemic
114. 12 OctHappy Birthday, Eleanor Roosevelt!
115. 11 OctWisconsin, South Carolina: Two Teachers Die of COVID-19
116. 11 OctAppeals Court Blocks Use of Military Funds for Trump’s Wall
117. 11 OctCNN: Tech Billionaires Get Richer During Pandemic
118. 11 OctWhy Did Religious Groups Get CARES Bailout Money?
119. 10 OctTrump, Sessions, and Miller Wanted to Separate Babies from Their Families
120. 10 OctNPE Action Endorses Candace Valenzuela for Congress in Texas
121. 10 OctJan Resseger: Why Are So Few Willing to Stand Up for Our Children?
122. 10 OctEmily Oster: Schools Are Not Super-Speaders of COVID
123. 10 OctNebraska: Privatizers Swarm in Hopes of Capturing State That Treasures Public Schools
124. 9 Oct“Homecoming”: Are You Ready for This?
125. 9 OctSamantha Bee Demolishes School Choice
126. 9 OctTom Ultican: The Authoritarians Who Ruined Our Schools
127. 9 OctMeet the Religious Zealot Who Has Defeated Bond Issues in Rural America
128. 8 OctTrump Wants Barr to Indict Obama and Biden
129. 8 OctReport: Barr Undermines Justice and Intelligence Agencies
130. 8 OctWhen Walton Family Says “Innovative,” They Mean Privately Controlled
131. 8 OctOklahoma: EPIC Audit and a System Ripe for Abuse and Fraud
132. 8 OctColumbus, Ohio: School Board Member Lobbies for School Choice, Not Public Schools
133. 8 OctRetired Teacher: The Remedy for Our Schools
134. 7 OctSouth Carolina: Supreme Court Strikes Down Voucher Plan!
135. 7 OctThe Latest Videos from the Lincoln Project
136. 7 OctDana Milbank: The Invincible Trump
137. 7 OctWhat to Watch Instead of the News
138. 7 OctDeVos Sends Out $131 Million for New Charters
139. 7 OctLaura Chapman: “GreatSchools” Rating System Is Funded by School Choice Billionaires
140. 6 OctCarol Burris: Back to School—the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
141. 6 OctA Reader’s Recipe for Education “Reform”
142. 6 OctDavid R. Taylor: What Would Four More Years of Trump Mean for Public Education?
143. 6 OctTim Schwab: The Poor Get Sick, and Bill Gates Gets Richer
144. 6 OctHow the Trump Administration Downplayed COVID
145. 5 OctTrump’s Positive Thinking About COVID-19=Denial
146. 5 OctDavid Dayen: “The President is a Sick Man”
147. 5 OctAndrea Gabor: The Flaws in California’s Ethnic Studies Mandate
148. 5 OctJan Resseger: The GOP War Against Teachers is a War Against Education
149. 5 OctTexas: Public Schools Have Better Outcomes Than Charter Schools
150. 5 OctAndy Hargreaves: Imagine a World Without Teachers!
151. 4 OctToday, the Launch of the Orient Express
152. 4 OctCommonweal: Trump’s Disastrous Presidency
153. 4 OctRuth Marcus on Amy Coney Barrett
154. 4 OctSteven Singer: What Trump’s COVID Means for Schools
155. 4 Oct“Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement?”
156. 3 OctURGENT: Vote in Person!
157. 3 OctArthur Camins: To Renew Our Society, Teach Empathy, Ethics, and Evidence
158. 3 OctHow Our Tax Systems Favors the 1% and Cuts Their Taxes
159. 3 OctRebekah Ray: Florida Is the Worst Place to Be a Teacher
160. 2 OctIllinois: Supreme Court Accepts Appeal in Major School Funding Case
161. 2 OctOklahoma: State Audit Reveals Financial Issues at Epic Charter Schools
162. 2 OctJan Resseger: Why I Love Derek Black’s New Book, Part 2
163. 2 OctTennessee: Instead of Wasting Millions on Privatization, Invest in Community Schools
164. 1 OctJames Hohmann: Post-Debate Fallout
165. 1 OctNew Book: Trump Wanted Ivanka as His Running Mate in 2016
166. 1 OctFrank G. Splitt: Existential Threats to American Democracy
167. 1 OctJersey Jazzman: Trump Gets Debate Help from Chris Christie
168. 1 OctAn Appeal to Romney to Reconsider
169. 1 OctTennessee: Why the Courts Rejected Vouchers

September 2020

1. 30 SepTrump, Facing Financial Ruin, Sought Control of His Father’s Estate
2. 30 SepNorth Carolina: Segregation and Charter Schools
3. 30 SepG.F. Brandenburg: How Democrats Should Handle the Hearings on Supreme Court Nominee
4. 30 SepTennessee Court of Appeals Rejects Voucher Plan!
5. 30 SepDana Milbank on the Debate Between Trump and Biden
6. 30 SepJoin Katherine Stewart and Me Tonight to Discuss the Assault on Public Schools
7. 29 SepNew York Times: Trump’s Taxes, Part 2: The Con
8. 29 SepWhite House Pressured CDC to Change Guidelines for Students
9. 29 SepJan Resseger Loves Derek Black’s “Stunning” New Book
10. 29 SepBillionaire Reed Hastings Gives $925,000 to Charter Candidate for LAUSD
11. 29 SepCNN: Trump Campaign Releases Fake Videos and Says They Are a Joke
12. 28 SepForbes: Trump Is a Billionaire Who Doesn’t Pay Taxes
13. 28 SepChalkbeat: GreatSchools Revises Its Rating System But It’s Still Tied to Test Scores
14. 28 SepSound Advice for Parents of Young Children
15. 28 SepCapital & Main: Which Plutocrats Are Funding Fight Against Tax Reform
16. 28 SepUNICEF: The U.S. Ranks Near the Bottom in Child Wellness
17. 27 SepTrump Paid No Income Taxes for 10 of 15 Years
18. 27 SepLeonie Haimson: Why Principals Voted “No Confidence” in De Blasio and Carranza
19. 27 SepNYC Administrators’ Union Votes “No Confidence” in Mayor and Chancellor
20. 27 SepMy Conversation with Steve Suitts about the Segregationist Origins of School Choice
21. 27 SepBernie Sanders on Barrett Nomination to High Court
22. 27 SepDana Milbank: The Reichstag Is Burning. Wake Up!
23. 27 SepLeonie Haimson: Success Academy Retrenches Due to Lack of Students
24. 27 SepJack Hassard: Raking Leaves in the Forest Won’t Stop California’s Mega-Fires
25. 27 SepPeter Greene: Arne’s New Gig in the Edu-Biz
26. 26 SepKendall Deas: Good Schools are the Basis of Economic Success
27. 26 SepDavid Von Drehle: The Republican Party Stands for Nothing
28. 26 SepA Republican State Superintendent: Hero of Public Education
29. 26 SepDeVos Loses Fight to Split Public School CARES $$ with Private Schools
30. 25 SepDr. Leslie Fenwick Explains Why the “Schemes” of Reformers Keep Failing
31. 25 SepFred Klonsky: How Illinois’ Flat Tax Cheats Black and Brown Communities
32. 25 SepArizona: Charter Leader Sentenced to 3+ Years in Prison for Misappropriation of $2.5 Million
33. 25 SepFlorina Rodov: Virtual Charter Schools Are an Educational Disaster
34. 25 SepBernie Sanders Denounces Trump’s Assault on Democracy
35. 24 SepCarl J. Petersen: Let the Charter School Lies Begin!
36. 24 SepJohn Thompson: Reflecting on “The Lost Year” for Students
37. 24 SepJan Resseger: Ohio and the Fight to Save Public Schools
38. 24 SepThe Atlantic: What if Trump Refuses to Concede?
39. 23 SepCalifornia: Pasadena School Board Candidate Racks Up Impressive Endorsements
40. 23 SepFlorida: Charter School in Fort Myers Closes Down
41. 23 SepNow Here Is a Balanced Discussion of Teachers Unions!
42. 23 SepSouth Carolina: Oral Arguments about Vouchers
43. 23 SepThomas Ultican: Will Plutocrats Buy Control of California’s Schools?
44. 23 SepPolitico: DeVos Under Investigation for Possible Violation of the Hatch Act
45. 23 SepJohn McCain’s Wife Cindy Endorses Joe Biden
46. 22 SepMeyerson: Why Doesn’t McConnell Confirm a Justice Today?
47. 22 SepPentagon Used Coronavirus Funds for Military Purposes
48. 22 SepTexas: The State Board of Education Approved This Subpar Charter Chain
49. 22 SepTrump at Rally: COVID Affects “Virtually Nobody”
50. 22 SepDe Blasio Flubs Coronavirus Response
51. 22 SepSign a Petition Against White Supremacist Curriculum
52. 22 SepWatch Trump’s Call for “Patriotic History”
53. 22 SepPlease Help Elect Joyce Elliott to Congress from Arkansas
54. 21 SepJoin My Zoom with Derek Black About His New Book
55. 21 SepWhat If Trump Won’t Go?
56. 21 Sep“3rd Grade Reading Laws Are Harmful and Should be Abolished”
57. 21 SepPeter Greene: Will China Finance Trump’s “Patriotic” History Curriculum
58. 21 SepNancy Bailey: Betsy DeVos Trashes “Separation of Church and State”
59. 20 SepSenator Susan Collins Equivocates
60. 20 SepSomeDAM Poet on “Billyanthropy”
61. 20 SepJames Fallows: “The Media Learned Nothing from 2016”
62. 20 SepTexas State Board Authorizes Another Gulen Charter Chain
63. 19 SepPolitico: The Odds of Stopping Trump’s Next Supreme Court Appointment
64. 19 SepSome Tributes to RBG
65. 19 SepMiami: K12 Inc. Made Suspicious Donation to Superintendent’s Fund
66. 19 SepYohuru Williams: The Words of John Lewis Inspire Creation of Coalition to Get into “Good Trouble”
67. 19 SepLaura Chapman on the “COVID Slide”
68. 19 SepJoin My Conversation with Derek Black about His New Book
69. 19 SepWired: Miami’s Disastrous Deal with K12 Inc.
70. 18 SepDana Milbank: Don’t Let Trump Sabotage the Election: “We’ve Got This!”
71. 18 SepOklahoma Teacher: Voting for Trump Is My Greatest Regret
72. 18 SepTrump: Schools Must Teach “Patriotic” U.S. History
73. 18 SepMichael Kohlhass: Will these 22 Los Angeles Charter Schools Be Closed Down?
74. 18 SepBig Win Against Predatory For-Profit College!
75. 17 SepPennsylvania Supreme Court Knocks Green Party Off the Ballot
76. 17 SepMercedes Scheider: My Students Are Wearing Masks!
77. 17 SepSouth Carolina: Corporate Tax Breaks Erode Public School Funding
78. 17 SepPrivate and Charter Schools Received Six Times as Much COVID Funding As Public Schools
79. 17 SepFlorida Teacher: The State Lied to Me
80. 16 SepCapital & Main: Number of Uninsured Surges During Trump’s Term
81. 16 SepCynthia Nixon: Who Really Counts in New York City?
82. 16 SepAFT Poll on Reopening: Public Wants Safety First
83. 16 SepJohn H. Jackson: Trump’s Attack on 1619 Project Is Wrong
84. 16 Sep“Scientific American” Endorses a Presidential Candidate, for the First Time in Its 175-Year History
85. 16 SepNew Poll: Global Reputation of United States Has Plummeted
86. 15 SepWhy Is Trump Holding Dangerous Indoor Rallies?
87. 15 SepA Conversation Between Joe Biden and Ady Barkan
88. 15 SepHow China Opened Its Schools Safely
89. 15 SepGermany: Schools Re-Open, No Major COVID Outbreaks
90. 15 SepJan Resseger: “Let Them Eat Tweets”
91. 15 SepTIME: The Top 1% Have Taken $50 Trillion from the Bottom 90%
92. 15 SepNew York Times: Wacko in Charge of CDC Communications
93. 14 SepTrump Tells Nevada Rally He Deserves Third Term
94. 14 SepCarl J. Petersen: Why Los Angeles Voters Should Re-Elect Scott Schmerelson to the LAUSD School Board
95. 14 SepChina Crushes Freedom to Teach in Hong Kong
96. 14 SepGary Rubinstein: How Scholars Fail at Success Academy
97. 14 SepOhio: Charters and Vouchers Sucked Half a Billion from Public Schools Last Year
98. 13 SepMy Review of Michael Cohen’s Book about Trump—Update
99. 13 SepTexas: State Board Approves Five Charter Chains, Vetoes Three
100. 13 SepRichard Phelps Reviews Michelle Rhee’s Reforms, Part 2
101. 13 SepRichard Phelps Reviews Michelle Rhee’s “Reforms,” Ten Years Later, Part 1
102. 12 SepMaine: Pastor at “Super-Spreader” Wedding Remains Defiant
103. 12 SepHappy Birthday, H.L. Mencken!
104. 12 SepJohn Merrow: Bob Woodward Had a Duty to Tell the Public Sooner about Trump’s Lies
105. 12 SepChris Mann Sings to Betsy DeVos
106. 12 SepMiami-Dade Schools Sever Ties with K12 Online Corp.
107. 12 SepDavid Gamberg: A New Vision is Needed Now for Education!
108. 12 SepJoin Steve Suitts and Me on Zoom to Talk about the Origins of “School Choice”
109. 11 SepArkansas: Public School Advocates Demand End to Failed Voucher Program
110. 11 SepInstitute for Policy Studies: Reimagining School Safety
111. 11 SepPeter Greene: Will Biden Revive the Failed Obama Education “Reforms”?
112. 11 SepTom Ultican: School Choice is a Costly Fraud
113. 11 SepRemembering 9/11
114. 10 SepTrump Lists 3 Rightwing Zealots on Short List for Supreme Court
115. 10 SepHappy Birthday, Mary Oliver!
116. 10 SepPaul Horton: What You Should Know About the History of the Confederacy
117. 10 SepTrump Threatens to Withdraw Federal Funds from Schools That Teach Anti-Racism Courses
118. 10 SepSteven Singer: Why Does Trump Hate COVID Testing But Love Standardized Testing?
119. 10 SepNancy Bailey: Who Should Be the Next Secretary of Education?
120. 9 SepDana Milbank: Trump’s Narcissism is Deadly
121. 9 SepToday: A New Film about Trump’s Mishandling of the Pandemic: American Pathogen
122. 9 SepMike Rose Offers Advice to Biden and Harris
123. 9 SepFormer IDEA Leader Wants to Turn San Antonio into Charter Mecca
124. 9 SepPeter Greene: Will DeVos Use the Pandemic to Get $5 Billion for Vouchers?
125. 9 SepMercedes Schneider: Standardized Testing Is Indispensable to Those Who Are Not Subjected to It
126. 8 SepDana Milbank: How to Raise Money for the Financially Strapped Trump Campaign
127. 8 SepDavid Dayen: The Rise and Possible Prosecution of the Postmaster General
128. 8 SepNYC: Parents at Success Academy Worry about Stress of All-Remote “No Excuses” Discipline
129. 8 SepJoin #ScholarStrike in Solidarity Protest Against Racial Injustice
130. 8 SepLaura Chapman: EdTech Is Driven by the Profit Motive
131. 8 SepVictoria Theisen Homer: The Tyranny of Remote Learning
132. 8 SepGayle Greene: EdTech Cashes in on the Pandemic
133. 7 SepToday: The Anniversary of the Blitz
134. 7 SepHero Pilot Captain Sully Denounces Trump
135. 7 SepBob Shepherd: Donald in the Twilight Zone
136. 7 SepPeter Greene: The Rebecca Friedrichs Reader
137. 7 SepI Am a Proud Anti-Fascist
138. 7 SepFDR on Social Security and Trump’s Plan to Bankrupt It
139. 7 SepCalifornia Fire: “A Rescue Like No Other”
140. 6 SepHappy Birthday, Jane Addams!
141. 6 SepJohn Thompson: Politics and the Coronavirus in Oklahoma
142. 6 SepWhere Do You Buy “High Quality Seats”?
143. 6 SepNancy Bailey: A Nation Confused And Leaderless About Schools and COVID
144. 6 SepCapital & Main: Why Aren’t Democrats Supporting the Rollback of Proposition 13?
145. 6 SepTeacher: Let’s All Pull Together
146. 5 SepWill District 1 on Long Island Send a Scientist to Congress?
147. 5 SepFEMA Will No Longer Spend Emergency Funds on Cleaning Schools, Other Public Spaces
148. 5 SepDeVos Warns: No Testing Waivers Next Year!
149. 5 SepMercedes Schneider: No, Mr. Biden, Being “In the Classroom” Is Not Enough
150. 5 SepDavid Dayen: How Little Can the GOP Do for Working People?
151. 5 SepBreaking! Federal Judge Rejects DeVos’ Efforts to Give Federal Funding to Private Schools
152. 4 SepToday in 1957: Arkansas Governor Faubus Calls Up National Guard to Preserve Segregation
153. 4 SepHappy Birthday, Richard Wright!
154. 4 SepFlorida: Teachers Are Burning Out Under Stress
155. 4 SepMaurice Cunningham: Why the Waltons and Koch Support Charter Schools
156. 4 SepCanada: “Individualism Run Amok”
157. 4 SepTrump: Wounded Vets Are “Losers”
158. 3 SepChris Barbic, Founder of Failed “Achievement School District,” Returns to Tennessee
159. 3 SepA Study of Charter Schools and Special Education
160. 3 SepPeter Goodman:”This Is Not the End of Cities”
161. 2 Sep“Capital & Main” Wins Multiple Journalism Awards
162. 2 SepJeff Bryant: Parents, Beware of Charter Schools
163. 2 SepA Primer on Trump’s Humility
164. 2 SepSteven Singer: The Lessons Kids Learn from Reckless School Openings
165. 2 SepScience Writer: Should I Send My Children to School?
166. 1 SepHappy Birthday, Edgar Rice Burroughs!
167. 1 SepThe Economist: A Hopeful Prediction About the November Election
168. 1 SepNancy Bailey: Bill Gates and the Deprofessionalizing of Education
169. 1 SepTrump Advisor Urges Swedish Model of Herd Immunity
170. 1 SepT.C. Weber: Tennessee’s Education Commissioner Has Two Jobs: Is That a Problem?

August 2020

1. 31 AugRobert Shepherd: The Trump Convention and the Return of the Fascist Spectacle
2. 31 AugArizona: Charters Can Double Dip, No Problem
3. 31 AugWalter Stroup: What Texans Need to Know About Standardized Testing
4. 31 AugPeter Greene: The Brookings Institution is in Charter School La-La Land
5. 31 AugNewsweek: Teachers Resigning to Avoid COVID
6. 30 AugPolitico: Trump’s Schedule This Week
7. 30 AugToday is the Birthday of Molly Ivins
8. 30 AugBritain Will Open Schools Amid Uncertainty
9. 30 AugTexas: IDEA Corporate Charter Chain Plans Massive Expansion
10. 30 AugDerek Black: Betsy DeVos and the Theft of CARES Funding
11. 30 AugMercedes Schneider: Betsy DeVos Hasn’t Had a New Idea in Thirty Years!
12. 30 AugJan Resseger: A Second Federal Judge Blocks DeVos’ Plan to Divert CARES Money to Private Schools
13. 29 AugJohn Merrow: Betsy DeVos and the Day the GOP Died
14. 29 AugMasha Gessen: Trump, Our King, Speaks from His Palace
15. 29 AugThomas Ultican: What Is the Center for Reinventing Public Education?
16. 29 AugCarol Burris: New York City Public Schools Should Re-Open
17. 29 AugFlorida: Judge Lifts Injunction on Opening schools
18. 28 AugStephen Colbert Reviews the RNC Convention That He Didn’t Watch
19. 28 AugToday is the Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, Led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
20. 28 AugSt. Louis: Charter Founder Admits $2.4 Million Fraud
21. 28 AugBill Becker: America’s Air Is Still Deadly, and Trump Is Making It Worse
22. 28 AugSouth Carolina: Teachers Fearful About Returning for In-Person Instruction
23. 28 AugHow the Trump Organization Made Big $$ by Renting Rooms to Secret Service
24. 27 AugHow Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin Took Control of the USPS
25. 27 AugBill Gates, The New York Times, and Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest
26. 27 AugJohn Thompson: Oklahoma Politicians Mumbling about the Coronavirus
27. 27 AugGary Rubenstein Gives You Some Math Lessons
28. 26 AugDana Milbank: Trump and His Bevy of Crooks
29. 26 AugMercedes Schneider: What Matters Most when Teaching During a Pandemic
30. 26 AugWhy George Conway Turned Against Trump
31. 26 AugBill Phillis: Vouchers Fail in Ohio
32. 26 AugNancy Bailey: How to Force DeVos into Retirement on One of Her Ten Yachts
33. 25 AugTrump at the Trump Convention: “12 More Years”
34. 25 AugThe Most Moving Speech at the Democratic National Convention
35. 25 AugMike Klonsky: Biden and Harris Didn’t Say Much About Education But the Platform Does
36. 25 AugNew York Times: How Trump Destroyed the C.I.A.
37. 25 AugThe Dismal GOP Roll Call of States
38. 25 AugBoston Globe: The Takeaway from the Trump National Convention
39. 25 AugAn Open Letter to Biden and Harris from Washington State’s Superintendent of Public Instruction
40. 25 AugRabbi in St. Louis: The McCloskeys Are Bullies
41. 24 AugMelania Cuts Down Jackie Kennedy’s White House Rose Garden
42. 24 AugFlorida: Judge Blocks State Order to Open Schools
43. 24 AugReuters: Business Partner of Falwells Claims He Had Relationship with the Powerful Evangelicals
44. 24 AugPolitico: What Obama Really Felt About Biden
45. 24 AugBob Shepherd Opens the Republican National Convention
46. 24 AugMcSweeney’s: The Schedule of Speakers at the Republican Convention
47. 24 AugMichael Hynes Pays Tribute to the Late Sir Ken Robinson
48. 23 AugPolitico: The Trump National Convention
49. 23 AugJack Hassard: Most Americans Can Vote By Mail
50. 23 AugArthur Goldstein: NYC Schools Can’t Open Unless They Are Safe
51. 23 AugThomas Ultican: Charter Schools Are a Failed Experiment
52. 23 AugTim Schwab: Bill &Melinda Gates Are Buying Favorable Coverage in the Media
53. 23 AugTrump’s Sister Told Mary Trump that Donald is a Liar with “No Principles”
54. 22 AugBREAKING: Federal Judge Issues Injunction Against DeVos’ Coronavirus Aid Rule
55. 22 AugCharles Pierce: Joe Biden’s Big Gamble
56. 22 AugMissouri Lowers Standards for Substitute Teachers
57. 22 AugBiden and Harris May Forge a New Path on Education
58. 22 AugEmily Harris: Have Faith in Tulsa Public Schools
59. 22 AugBill McKibben: Don’t Let Trump Kill the Postal Service
60. 22 AugSaturday: Demonstrations in D.C. to Demand Support for USPS
61. 21 AugJan Resseger: The Joy of Seeing Democrats Acknowledge the Importance of Public Schools
62. 21 AugDavid Dayen Explains Why Steve Bannon Was Indicted
63. 21 AugGlen Brown: Trump’s Ignorance is an Ongoing Plague
64. 21 AugCarol Burris: For-Profit Charter Aims to Take Control of Entire District in Pennsylvania
65. 21 AugJoe Biden: The Right Man for the Moment
66. 20 AugBarack Obama Speaks to the Democratic Convention—and the Nation
67. 20 AugGrassroots Arkansas: An Open Letter to Superintendent Mike Poore of Little Rock
68. 20 AugThe Intercept: Rightwing Media Planted in Trump News Conferences
69. 20 AugTrump Defends QAnon Conspiracy Theorists as “People Who Love Our Country”
70. 20 AugNew York: Demand Cuomo Restore School Funding!
71. 20 AugA Shameful Shortage of School Nurses
72. 20 AugWhat Schools Did During the Spanish Flu Pandemic a Century Ago
73. 20 AugGail Collins’ Annual Contest for the Worst Trump Cabinet Member
74. 20 AugMy Reaction to Day 3 of the Virtual Democratic Convention
75. 19 AugHarold Meyerson on Day 2 of the Democratic Convention
76. 19 AugFred Klonsky: Mailboxes Are Disappearing Across Chicago and It Matters
77. 19 AugLos Angeles: Vote for Scott Schmerelson and Patricia Castellanos for LAUSD School Board
78. 19 AugSouth Carolina: The Hoax of School Choice
79. 19 AugPeter Greene: Rhode Island is a Henhouse Controlled by Foxes
80. 18 AugBernie Sanders’ Great Speech at 2020 Virtual Convention
81. 18 AugNorth Carolina: Voters Get Absentee Ballot Notice with Trump Message on It
82. 18 AugDarcie Cimarusti: How Charters in New Jersey Double-Dipped into Federal CARES Funding
83. 18 AugTeacher in Alabama: Why I Have a Sharpie in My Emergency Bag
84. 18 AugMaurice Cunningham: Koch $$ for “National Parents Union”
85. 17 AugArkansas: Mock Funeral for Students, Teachers, and Schools Today at 6 PM
86. 17 AugLos Angeles: LAUSD Announces Massive Testing and Tracing Program
87. 17 AugAnette Carlisle: Mike Morath’s Plan to Abandon Local Control and Public Schools in Texas
88. 17 AugEurope: Schools Open with Apparent Success
89. 17 AugThe Internet Crisis: Why Isn’t Access Free Like Radio?
90. 16 AugLeonie Haimson: More on Success Academy Settlement: SA Has Not Paid Attorney Fees, As Ordered
91. 16 AugWhy You Won’t Get Christmas Cards Until January of 2021
92. 16 AugDemocrats in House Accelerate Hearings on Postal Service
93. 16 AugAlexandra Petri: Children Too Can Be Heroes!
94. 16 AugJob Posting: ELA Teacher Who Is Also Nurse, COVID-19 and Anti-Racism Specialist, and More
95. 16 AugKatherine Stewart: Betsy DeVos’s Plot to Transfer Public Funds to Private Schools During the Pandemic
96. 16 AugGary Rubinstein: Success Academy Pays $1.1 Million to Settle with Parents on “Got to Go” List
97. 16 AugTrump Announces Plan to Dispatch CDC Teams to Schools; CDC in the Dark
98. 15 AugTrump Acts to Dismantle U.S. Postal Service to Deter Mail-in Voting
99. 15 AugCalifornia: The Year of Teaching Dangerously: The Series
100. 15 AugCalifornia: The Year of Teaching Dangerously, Part 1
101. 15 AugFred Klonsky: Retired Teachers in Illinois Don’t Collect Social Security, Does It Matter if the GOP Kills It?
102. 14 AugDelightful Song about Our Current Situation
103. 14 AugAttention, Parents! A Statement on EdTech from the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
104. 14 AugRepublicans Launch Racist, Sexist Attacks on Kamala
105. 14 AugDavid Berliner and Gene Glass: Why Bother Testing in 2021?
106. 13 AugHappy Birthday, Annie Oakley!
107. 13 AugThe Anniversary of the First Cooperative Hospital
108. 13 Aug“Hamilton” on Television!
109. 13 AugOklahoma: Judge Fines Virtual Charter School $500,000
110. 13 AugReading Emily Dickinson During the Pandemic
111. 13 AugTeacher: A Day in the Life of a Hybrid Classroom
112. 13 AugChalkbeat: Trump, DeVos Demand Reopening Despite Risks
113. 13 AugNYC: Principals, Teachers, Nurses Seek Delay in Opening
114. 12 AugTexas: Former CFO of IDEA Charter Chain Sues for $1 Million in Back Pay
115. 12 AugLt. Col. Alexander Vindman: Doing the Right Thing Ended My Career in This Administration
116. 12 AugThomas Ultican: “School Choice” Was Created by White Supremacists
117. 12 AugKamala Harris at Ease
118. 12 AugMichael Hiltzik: Trump Wants to Kill Social Security
119. 11 AugWhat Trump’s Executive Orders Really Do
120. 11 AugLeonie Haimson: The Risks and Benefits of Opening New York City Schools
121. 11 AugA Face Mask That Teachers Should Consider
122. 11 AugBob Shepherd: How to Use Remote Learning Wisely
123. 11 AugJack Hassard: Georgia Is Not Ready to Open Schools
124. 11 AugIs Brian Kemp of Georgia the Dumbest Governor?
125. 10 AugToday is the Anniversary of Magellan’s Voyage
126. 10 AugTrump Wants His Face on Mount Rushmore
127. 10 AugNew Orleans: Why Some Charter Teachers Want to Join a Union
128. 10 AugGary Rubinstein Reviews Thomas Sowell’s Book About Charter Schools
129. 10 AugMercedes Schneider: My Pandemic Classroom
130. 10 AugTeacher: The Hidden Scandal in U.S. Education
131. 9 AugJack Schneider: Is Homeschooling The Next Big Thing?
132. 9 AugArizona Superintendent: Reopening School Now is a “Fantasy”
133. 9 AugTom Ultican: John Deasy Resigns Again, Under a Cloud
134. 9 AugAndy Hargreaves: The Education Technology We Will and Won’t Need After the Pandemic
135. 8 AugNancy Flanagan: Is Facebook the Fount of All Wisdom or the Essence of Stupid?
136. 8 AugGlenn Brown: An Addendum to “The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump”
137. 8 AugCarl J. Petersen: LAUSD Stood by While Charter Executive Embezzled $3.1 Million
138. 8 AugPeter Greene: The Risk That Families Take When They Choose a Charter School
139. 7 AugCuomo Says It Is OK to Reopen Schools in New York
140. 7 AugFauci: To Open School or Not
141. 7 AugGeorge T. Conway III: Trump’s Name Will Live in Infamy
142. 7 AugJohn Thompson: With Coronavirus Surging in Oklahoma, School Reopening Is Unlikely
143. 7 AugConnecticut: Charters Struggled with Ethics of Double Dipping Federal PPP
144. 7 AugUniversity of Kentucky Joins with NAACP to Establish New Research Initiative
145. 6 AugPrivate Schools Collected Billions from Federal Paycheck Protection Program
146. 6 AugNPE Releases New Report on Astonishing Charter School Closure Rates
147. 6 AugTennessee: A District Opens in Midst of Surging Pandemic
148. 6 AugAnthony Cody: Who Is Allowed to Be Selfish?
149. 5 AugPeter Wehner: Trump Is a Broken, Bitter Man
150. 5 AugPaul Horton: The Pathetic Story of Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas
151. 5 AugDr. Birx: To Open Schools or Not?
152. 5 AugAshley McCall: What If We Radically Reimagined School?
153. 4 AugTennessee: Plaintiffs File Amicus Brief in Voucher Case
154. 4 AugArthur Camins: Beware the “Me-First” Pandemic
155. 4 AugJohn Merrow: Why Does the Press Go Easy on Trump?
156. 4 AugPeter Greene: How Charters in Pennsylvania Monetize Students with Disabilities
157. 4 AugSteve Nelson: Not Wearing a Mask Is Stupid
158. 4 AugIs the Demand to Reopen Schools Really a Plot to Dismantle Them?
159. 3 AugGlen Brown: The Retired Teacher’s Concerns
160. 3 AugNY Times Magazine: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against COVID-19
161. 3 AugTrump Goes Berserk, Again
162. 3 AugPawan Dhingra: Why Indian Americans Excel at Spelling Bees
163. 3 AugFred Klonsky: What is “Cancel Culture”?
164. 2 AugThe Lincoln Project Video: MOMS
165. 2 AugMy Interview with the New York Review of Books
166. 2 AugWhy Andrew Cuomo Refuses to Tax the Billionaires in New York
167. 2 AugLarry Cuban: The Best Post on Dilemmas of Reopening
168. 2 AugNew Orleans: Hit Hard by COVID-19, Compounded by Racism
169. 2 AugJohaan Neem: Will Public Schools Survive the Pandemic?
170. 1 AugNetwork for Public Education: The Work of Our Grassroots Education Network
171. 1 AugWorldoMeter: U.S. Is Number One in Coronavirus Cases
172. 1 AugNancy Flanagan: What If This Were the Best Year Ever?
173. 1 AugPeter Greene: Don’t Believe the D in DFER
174. 1 AugThe DFER Democrats Who Support the Betsy DeVos Agenda of “School Choice”
175. 1 AugBruce Baker and Preston Green: What Happens After the Espinoza Decision?

July 2020

1. 31 JulThe Lincoln Project: Trump Can’t Stop Us from Voting!
2. 31 JulJeffrey Toobin: Trump Is Worse Than Nixon
3. 31 JulNew Study: Dogs Can Be Trained to Recognize COVID-19
4. 31 JulRon Berler: A Fourth Graders’ Guide to Right and Wrong
5. 31 JulMitchell Robinson: Mike Pence Visits a Tax-Supported Libertarian School
6. 30 JulLeonie Haimson: NYC Charter Schools Hit the PPP Jackpot!
7. 30 JulHappy Birthday, Emily Brontë
8. 30 JulDana Milbank: Bill Barr Is a Trump Sycophant
9. 30 JulMy View: How Trump Politicized Returning to School
10. 30 JulSarah Jones: America’s Schools Were Set Up to Fail
11. 30 JulSouth Carolina: Judge Grants Temporary Restraining Order to Block $32 Million for Vouchers
12. 29 JulG.F. Brandenburg: The D.C. Charter Schools that Took PPP Money
13. 29 JulJan Resseger: Reopening Plans Ignore Equity and Adequacy
14. 29 JulJohn Merrow: It Will Take a Village to Open Schools Safely
15. 29 JulDavid Berliner: The “Required Curriculum” Vs. “The Not Required” Curriculum
16. 28 JulToday is the Birthday of One of My Favorite Poets
17. 28 JulDavid Dayen: What’s in Mitch McConnell’s Corporate Bailout Bill
18. 28 JulRandi’s Address to The AFT on America’s Three Crises: “Nothing is Off the Table”
19. 28 JulMercedes Schneider: Thanks to ProPublica, You Can Follow the Money
20. 28 JulLaurie Roberts: Charters in Arizona Scored Nearly $100 Million. That’s Ridiculous.
21. 28 JulNorth Carolina: Parents Sue to Invalidate Voucher Program
22. 28 JulDeVos Aide: We are Not Likely to Waive Mandated Testing in 2020-21
23. 28 JulRandi on the Senate GOP’s New Coronavirus Relief Bill
24. 28 JulTennessee: Governor Lee Listens to Dr. Birx, Ignores Her Warnings
25. 27 JulReagan Foundation Asks Trump Campaign to Stop Using Reagan’s Name
26. 27 JulNew York City: Parents Press DeBlasio to Support Outdoor Classes
27. 27 JulAlexander H. Stephens Defines the True Purposes of the Confederacy
28. 27 JulBombshell! NPE Report Reveals Massive Charter Double Dipping into Federal PPP Funds!
29. 27 JulSouth Carolina: Governor Uses $48 Million in CARES Funds to Pay $32 million for Vouchers
30. 26 JulHappy Birthday, Aldous Huxley!
31. 26 JulTrump Is Not in Denial. He Is Malevolent.
32. 26 JulIndiana: A Profile in Courage
33. 26 JulTrump Thinks He Can Win Votes by Stressing School Choice and Fast Reopening
34. 26 JulLaurie Garrett: Most Schools Will Not Be Able to Open
35. 25 JulThe Lincoln Project on Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
36. 25 JulJohn H. Loflin: Indianapolis Public Schools For Sale
37. 25 JulMarion Brady: When Face-to-Face Learning Is Impossible
38. 25 JulHarold Meyerson: The Electoral College is a Shameful Vestige of Slavery
39. 25 JulMercedes Schneider: No State Has Met CDC Guidelines But Schools Are Opening Anyway
40. 24 JulAOC Delivers Brilliant Speech on Crude Sexism
41. 24 JulCDC Caves to Political Pressure, Waters Down Guidelines for Reopening Schools
42. 24 JulWashington Post Fact-Checks DeVos on COVID-19 Claims
43. 24 JulTeaching in Troubled Times: A Q&A with a Trauma Expert
44. 24 JulDave Grohl: In Defense of Our Teachers
45. 24 JulNew Study: There Is NO Relationship Between International Test Scores and Economic Growth
46. 23 JulProvidence Journal Blasts Governor Raimondo for Acting Like Trump
47. 23 JulGarrison Keillor: A Grim Anniversary in Detroit
48. 23 JulThe Lincoln Project: Trump’s Failure on Pandemic
49. 23 JulParent: Why I Don’t Care About IntegratIng NYC’s Selective High Schools
50. 23 JulLos Angeles County: Charters Collect $78 Million in PPP Cash from Feds
51. 23 JulRachel Cohen: Pandemic Creates Opening for Public Funding of Home Schooling
52. 23 JulThe Most Urgent Issue in the U.S. Today: Trump’s Invasion of Portland, Oregon
53. 22 JulCivil Rights and Education Groups File Suit Against DeVos
54. 22 JulJohn Thompson: Save My Former Student’s Life
55. 22 JulNew York City: Teachers Worried about Risks of Reopening
56. 22 JulHow the Never Trumpers Got into Trump’s Head
57. 22 JulOhio: Charter Schools Received 5X As Much Federal Coronavirus Aid as Public Schools
58. 22 JulJan Resseger: If Trump Wants Schools to Open, Why Won’t He Pay for It?
59. 22 JulLawfare Blog: Federal Police in Portland Cannot Be Justified
60. 21 JulDavid Dayen: Why Florida’s Teachers Are Suing to Block Reopening
61. 21 JulLeonie Haimson: Obstacles to a Safe Reopening
62. 21 JulNew York: Billionaires Get Richer During Pandemic
63. 21 JulCalifornia: Billionaires See Vast Increase in Wealth During Pandemic
64. 21 JulWhen Did Trump and DeVos Fall Out of Love with Distance Learning?
65. 21 JulTeacher: This Is How I Will Teach when School Reopens
66. 21 JulPublic Education Partners: Ohio Is Not Ready for a Safe Reopening
67. 21 JulMissouri Governor: Of Course Kids Will Get COVID!
68. 21 JulPortland, Oregon: Trump’s Military Invades and Occupies an American City
69. 20 JulTIME: What the U.S. Can Learn from 3 Countries About Reopening
70. 20 JulFlorida: Educators Sue to Block Unsafe Reopening
71. 20 JulTrump’s Disastrous Abdication of Leadership Role in Confronting Pandemic
72. 20 JulNo-Excuses Charter Chain Fires Principal for Caring About Children and Teachers
73. 20 JulLos Angeles: Charter Operator Pleads Guilty to Stealing $3 Million
74. 20 JulNew Study: Children As Young As 10 Can Spread the Virus
75. 19 JulBob Shepherd: Florida Angry that Georgia Lifts Mask-Wearing Mandate
76. 19 JulPeter Greene: Everything’s Made Up, and No One Is Behind
77. 19 JulMary Trump’s Book: A Great Read
78. 19 JulJoe and Jill Biden Speak Out About Reopening Schools
79. 18 JulAndy Hargreaves: What Should Happen to Education Post-Pandemic?
80. 18 JulGina Bellafante: Schools Beat Plagues with Outdoor Education, Why Can’t We?
81. 18 JulTeachers: Why Not Shift to Outdoor Learning?
82. 18 JulJohn Lewis: An American Hero (1940-2020)
83. 18 JulParent: Why Not Open Outdoor Classrooms in Tents and Other Temporary Structures?
84. 17 JulTrump Surpasses 20,000 Lies
85. 17 JulStop Tax Breaks for the 1%. Fund Schools If You Want Them Open
86. 17 JulMcConnell Is Shaping a New Relief Bill—But Not for You
87. 17 JulIllinois: Governor Pritzker Seeks Court Order to Require Masks in Schools
88. 17 JulPeter Greene: The Modern School Choice Movement Was Created by Southern Segregationists
89. 17 JulSteve Suitts: The Supreme Court is Reversing the Landmark Brown Decision
90. 17 JulFlorida: Nearly One-Third of Those Tested Under 18 Were Positive for Coronavirus
91. 16 JulBorowitz: Georgia Governor Bans Science
92. 16 JulThe Anniversary of Publication of “A Catcher in the Rye”
93. 16 JulCandace Valenzuela Wins Her Race for Democratic Nomination for Congress in Texas!
94. 16 JulThe Debate About Reopening Intensifies: What Some Other Nations Are Doing
95. 16 JulBob Shepherd: Post-Espinoza Business Plan to Expand His Gubmint-Funded Private School in Flor-i-Duh
96. 16 JulBlack Students and Staff Speak Out About Charters
97. 16 JulFaculty and Staff at U. of Penn. Want University To Pay Taxes to Philadelphia Schools
98. 16 Jul“The Trump Loyalty Test”
99. 15 JulThomas Pedroni: Detroit School Board Votes to Reopen Schools Despite Concerns of Teachers and Parents
100. 15 JulHouston: Schools Not Ready to Reopen in Midst of Pandemic Surge, Board and Union Agree
101. 15 JulTrump Guts Environmental Protections
102. 15 JulNew York Times: DeVos Allies Try to Understand Her Abandonment of Local Control
103. 15 JulDr. Nan Fulcher and Justin Parmenter: A Warning for North Carolina
104. 15 JulDana Milbank: Trump’s Blatant Racism May Transform Anerica
105. 15 JulRalph Ratto: COVID and School Ventilation
106. 15 JulMaking Black Lives Matter in School
107. 14 JulHappy Birthday, Woody Guthrie!
108. 14 JulThe Reopening Question: Is It Safe?
109. 14 JulNew York City: How Does a District with More than One Million Students Plan to Reopen?
110. 14 JulIrony! Gompers Charter School Fights Union!
111. 14 JulMassachusetts: Students, Parents Charge Charter School with Racism
112. 14 JulOrange County Approves Full Reopening
113. 13 JulPhilly-Area Charters Collect $30 Million+ in PPP Funding
114. 13 JulSalon: Charters May Have Taken $1 Billion in PPP $$
115. 13 JulWhich Charter Schools Got Federal PPP $$ in Your State or Zipcode?
116. 13 JulArizona: Charter Schools, Private Schools, and Religious Schools Cash In on PPP
117. 12 JulNew York Times: Secret CDC Report Warned of Danger of Opening Schools Without Proper Safeguards
118. 12 JulG.F. Brandenburg: The Looting of America
119. 12 JulProPublica: Contractor Wins Federal $$ to Build the Wall, Which May Fall into the River
120. 12 JulKen Bernstein: The Practical Problems of Reopening Safely
121. 12 JulClaudia MacMillan: A Remarkable and Inspiring Program of Learning in Dallas and Fort Worth
122. 11 JulMeet Andre Perry, a Superstar in Education!
123. 11 JulHumor from the BBC about Religion and Race
124. 11 JulPennsylvania: The Death Spiral of York City Public Schools
125. 11 JulCharlotte: Synagogues Ask City to Remove Statue of Jewish Confederate Hero
126. 11 JulJack Schneider: Why Study History?
127. 11 JulOakland: Teachers Will Not Go Back to Work Unless the Schools Are Safe for Students and Staff
128. 11 JulLos Angeles: UTLA Votes to Keep Schools Closed Until They Are Safe
129. 10 JulThe Report of the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force: Good But Weak Pablum on Charters
130. 10 JulMercedes Schneider: A Parent at Success Academy Tells All
131. 10 JulTexas and Florida Tell Schools to Reopen Fully, Despite Surge in Virus Cases
132. 10 JulOhio: Audit Finds Misspending and Conflict of Interest at Richard Allen Charter Schools
133. 10 JulUTLA: It Is Not Safe to Open Schools This Fall
134. 10 JulHouse Democrats to Trump and DeVos: We Won’t Let You Defund Public Schools
135. 10 JulReject the Trump-DeVos One-Size-Fits-All Plan
136. 9 JulHappy Birthday, Oliver Sacks!
137. 9 JulPalm Beach County: This Video Explains Why the Pandemic Is Surging in Red States
138. 9 JulKevin Welner on Trump’s Failure to Make It Safe to Open Schools
139. 9 JulArizona: School Leaders Worry About Reopening as Virus Spreads
140. 9 JulBREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court Rules That Trump Must Release Tax Returns to NY Prosecutors!
141. 9 JulTom Ultican: Don’t Reopen the Schools. It’s Not Safe.
142. 9 JulSay NO to Trump-DeVos Pressure to Reopen without Resources for Health and Safety
143. 8 JulTulsa: Health Officials Say Trump Rally “Likely” Source of Surge in Coronavirus Infections
144. 8 JulBreaking News: The Mayor of Houston Cancels GOP State Convention
145. 8 JulThe Swedish Experiment Failed
146. 8 JulSupreme Court: Teachers in Religious Schools Not Protected by Laws Against Discrimination
147. 8 JulTrump Will Seek Federal Aid for Private and Religious Schools in Any New Coronavirus Relief Bill
148. 8 JulJeff Bryant: Charter Operators Take Advantage of Pandemic to Expand into Suburbs
149. 8 JulThe Federal Paycheck Protection Program Was a Bonanza for the Charter Industry
150. 8 JulTrump Friends and Family Received Federal Bailout Money, Along with Financiers and Big Law Firms
151. 8 JulTrump and DeVos: Schools Must Reopen, Without Needed Resources
152. 7 JulHappy Birthday, David McCullough!
153. 7 JulReform Jewish Leaders Criticize Supreme Court’s Espinoza Decision
154. 7 JulCarl J. Petersen: Los Angeles Charter School Took $4.6 Million from PPP, Then Laid Off Employees
155. 7 JulCarol Burris: Why Schools Should Reopen, Safely
156. 7 JulAndre Perry: Defund Private Schools. They Perpetuate Racism
157. 6 JulTrump Defends the Confederate Flag
158. 6 JulHappy Birthday, Frida Kahlo!
159. 6 JulPeter Goodman: Why Is the New York Board of Regents “Bleeding” Public Schools by Expanding Charter Schools?
160. 6 JulMike Klonsky on KIPP’s Rebranding
161. 6 JulJersey Jazzman: A Practical Guide to the Problems of Reopening During a Pandemic
162. 6 JulA Grand Bargain: Reopen the Schools (Where Feasible) But Only If the Feds Pay for It
163. 6 JulBonnie Lesley: We Have Lost a Champion for Children in Texas
164. 5 JulWendy Lecker: Connecticut Charter Schools Are Double Dipping
165. 5 JulMitchell Robinson: Let’s Talk About Reopening Schools
166. 5 JulSteven Singer: Distance Learning Is Horrible, Death is Worse
167. 5 JulAnya Kamenetz: Pediatricians Believe Young Children Should Return to School in Fall
168. 4 JulTrump Is the Second Coming of George Wallace
169. 4 JulDonald Trump Defends Confederate Heroes as America’s Great Heritage
170. 4 JulAdvice from Frederick Douglass: How to “Fix” Lincoln’s Statue in D.C.
171. 4 JulTrump Politicizes Mt. Rushmore. But His Face Will Never Be There.
172. 4 JulAmerican Fascism: It Did Happen Here
173. 4 JulFrederick Douglass on the Fourth of July
174. 4 JulCelebrating July 4
175. 3 JulJan Resseger: The Dangers of the Espinoza Decision
176. 3 JulJamaal Bowman: A New Kind of Democrat
177. 3 JulWhite House Defense of Trump: He Didn’t Know! No One Told Him
178. 3 JulKevin Welner on the Radical Espinoza Decision
179. 3 JulSome States and Superintendents Seek Deferral of Standardized Tests Next Year
180. 3 JulSAVE THE DATE! July 8, 7:30 pm to Join Me and Andre Perry
181. 2 JulA Clarification about Los Angeles Police in Schools V. New York City
182. 2 JulLeonie Haimson: New York City Has the Largest Police Presence in Schools
183. 2 JulUTLA Approves Reallocation of Funding for Police in Los Angeles Public Schools
184. 2 JulNancy Bailey: 22 Reasons Why Schools Should Not Open This Fall
185. 2 JulPeter Greene: Supreme Court Just Poked Another Hole in Wall of Separation Between Church and State
186. 2 JulSteve Hinnefeld: The Supreme Court’s Mistaken View of American History in the Espinoza Decision
187. 2 JulDerek Black: Untangling the Supreme Court’s Espinoza Decision
188. 1 JulWoman, Know Your Place. I Don’t.
189. 1 JulMy Knee, and Why I Can Walk Again
190. 1 JulMaria Popova on Keith Haring, Art, Love and Courage
191. 1 JulIt’s My Birthday So I Write What I Choose
192. 1 JulDana Milbank: America Slides Back to the Medieval Era

June 2020

1. 30 JunPastors for Texas Children Speaks Out Against the Espinoza Decision
2. 30 JunLaura Chapman: The Espinoza Decision Was a Farce, Because It Was Moot!
3. 30 JunRandi’s Take on the Supreme Court Decision in Espinoza Case
4. 30 JunBiden Calls for Massive Federal Response to Pandemic
5. 30 JunCalifornia Charter Schools Collect Millions Intended for Small Businesses
6. 30 JunDenver: Charter Schools Collected $16 Million in Federal Aid for Small Businesses
7. 30 JunBREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court Rules Against Montana Ban on Funding Religious Schools
8. 30 JunWhy Does the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Repeatedly Lie about Vouchers in Florida?
9. 30 JunD.C.: Beloved Principal Fired Because She Resisted “No Excuses” Discipline
10. 30 JunMaybe Why Trump Was Not Briefed on Russian Plan
11. 29 JunCongress Wants Answers about Russian Bounty-for-Bodies Allegations
12. 29 JunChief Justice Roberts Provides Swing Vote to Strike Down Law to Ban Abortions
13. 29 JunOklahoma: Dark Money Enters Primary Campaigns
14. 29 JunBarbara Veltri: TFA Is Still Feeding at the Trough
15. 29 JunStudy: Police Killings Reduce Grades, Grad Rates of Black and Hispanic Students
16. 29 JunThe Barr Memo and the Imperial Presidency
17. 29 JunVicki Cobb: How the Coronavirus Works
18. 29 JunA Remarkable Story About Joe Biden
19. 28 JunWaPo: Trump Campaign Staff Removed Social Distancing Warnings in Tulsa
20. 28 JunThe Anniversary of a World-Changing Event
21. 28 JunCharles Lane: Trump Lacks “Decency”
22. 28 JunDid Trump Ignore Warnings that Russians Paid Taliban to Kill Coalition Soldiers?
23. 28 JunPeter Greene: Charter School in Plush California Neighborhood Picks Up a Federal PPP Loan
24. 28 JunPaul Horton: Why Study History?
25. 27 JunJan Resseger: School Choice is Not the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time or Any Time
26. 27 JunMaria Popova: The Greatest LGBT Love Letters of All Time
27. 27 JunJohn Thompson: A Report from Tulsa after Trump’s Rallly Fiasco
28. 27 JunHarley Litzelman: Cops Don’t Keep Kids Safe at School
29. 27 JunPence Puts a Happy Face on Rise in COVID Cases
30. 26 JunAlexandra Petri: Mike Pence Reassures the People of Troy
31. 26 JunEugene Robinson on Confederate Statues and Where to Draw the Line
32. 26 JunPeter Greene: Trump Supports DeVos’ Efforts to Punish Students Who Were Scammed
33. 26 JunMemphis: Two KIPP Charters Close Suddenly, Stranding Students
34. 26 JunTrump Administration Seeks to Toss Out Obamacare
35. 26 JunTrump: Testing for COVID is Cause of Surge in Cases
36. 25 JunMichigan: Join This Virtual Town Hall on Racial Equity
37. 25 JunNational Education Policy Center: Thumbs Down for Summit Learning
38. 25 JunDavid Berliner: The Value of a College Education in the Humanities
39. 25 JunMarilee Coles-Ritchie: The Anti-Racist Policies and Practices We Need Now
40. 25 JunMy Advice to Joe Biden: Run a “Front-Porch Campaign”
41. 24 JunNew York: Jamaal Bowman Scores Upset Victory
42. 24 JunTulsa School Board Extends Gist Contract One Week Before School Board Election
43. 24 JunProvidence: State Releases Plan to Make Schools High-Performing in Five Years
44. 24 JunNew York City: Mayor De Blasio Inexplicably Invites Pitbull to Speak to 2020 Graduates
45. 24 JunNew Orleans: Most Charters Are Double-Dipping into Federal Funds
46. 24 JunNancy Bailey: Reimagine Education by Prioritizing the Arts in School
47. 24 JunWhat Trump Said About COVID-19 in Arizona
48. 23 JunSuccess Academy Spokesperson Resigns to Protest “Racist and Abusive” Practices
49. 23 JunToday: The Introduction of the SAT in 1926 as an Experiment
50. 23 JunMichael Klonsky: The Return of General Tata
51. 23 JunJesse Hagopian: Why Seattle Educators Demand Cut to Police Budget
52. 23 JunJan Resseger: High-Stakes Standardized Testing Brings a Punitive Regime
53. 23 JunValerie Strauss: Is the Obsession with Standardized Testing Ending?
54. 22 JunGary Rubinstein on Citizen Stewart and Eva Moskowitz
55. 22 JunFlorida: Police Arrest 6-Year-Old at Charter School
56. 22 JunMike Klonsky’s Father Was a Real Anti-Fascist
57. 22 JunJulian Vasquez Heilig on Community-Based Schooling
58. 22 JunVirtual Charter Industry Expecting Big Growth and Profits Due to Pandemic
59. 22 JunTrump Predicted 1 Million Fans in Tulsa. Fewer than 6,200 Appeared.
60. 21 JunIndiana: Can the State Afford Vouchers?
61. 21 JunPaul Horton: Violence Against Blacks During Reconstruction
62. 21 JunVictor Ray and Alan Aja: Education Won’t Save Us from Racism
63. 21 JunNorth Carolina: Join Jen Mangrum on June 25 to Learn About Her Campaign to Become State Chief
64. 20 JunHarold Meyerson: Trump as the Nosferatu of Our Time
65. 20 JunA Podcast with a Conservative Economist about SLAYING GOLIATH
66. 20 Jun“America” from the Cast of Hamilton
67. 20 JunFederal Judge Denies Trump-Barr Request to Block Publication of Bolton Book
68. 20 JunG.F. Brandenburg: The U.S. Has Surrendered to COVID-19
69. 20 JunVirginia Heffernan: Trump’s Rally is a Really Bad Idea
70. 20 JunJohn Thompson: Trump in Tulsa: Come for the Racism, Stay for the Plague
71. 20 JunBreaking News: U.S. Attorney Fired By Barr and Trump Refuses to Step Down
72. 20 JunTrump Fires U.S. Attorney Who Investigated His Associates Too Aggressively
73. 19 JunTrump Rally in Tulsa Will Proceed, Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules
74. 19 JunA Response to Diana Senechal Regarding Robert Pondiscio
75. 19 JunHarvard Drops SAT for New Class of 2021, More Will Follow
76. 19 JunNewsweek: Betsy DeVos Steals from the Poor and Gives to the Rich
77. 19 JunEducators of Color and Education Scholars of Color Speak Out Against Failed Billionaire-Backed “Reforms”
78. 19 JunOhio: Private School Enrollment Drops by 14% But Public Funding Grows
79. 19 JunStop Honoring Confederate Heroes
80. 18 JunLeonie Haimson: NYC DOE Finds $6 Million for Pearson
81. 18 JunG. F. Brandenburg: How Did the Swedish Experiment Turn Out?
82. 18 JunStaff at Success Academy Complain about Eva Moskowitz’s Insensitivity to Racism
83. 18 JunBREAKING NEWS: US Supreme Court Rules in Favor of DACA!
84. 18 JunMercedes Schneider: As New Superintendent Takes Over, TFA Executives Head for the Exits
85. 18 JunIn the Public Interest: Charter Schools in Oakland Are Tapping into Coronavirus Relief Funds
86. 17 JunDana Milbank: How a Very Stable Genius Will End the Pandemic
87. 17 JunDeVos Allows Charters to Tap into Federal $$ for Start Ups
88. 17 JunNational Education Policy Center Interview of the Month: Yours Truly
89. 17 JunBillionaire Reed Hastings Plans Luxury Resort to Train Teachers to Think Like Him
90. 17 JunTexas: IDEA Charter Chain Promises to Curb Its Big Spending
91. 17 JunPolitico: Pence Changes His Tune about the Pandemic
92. 17 JunRobert Shepherd Transcribed Trump’s Remarks on School Choice, with Commentary
93. 17 JunNo, School Choice is NOT “the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time”
94. 16 JunAndrea Gabor Asks for Your Help to Elect a Texan
95. 16 JunPeter Greene: How to Replace Distance Learning with Genuine Personalized Learning
96. 16 JunPawan Dhingra on “Hyper Education” and Its Consequences
97. 16 JunFairTest: More Than Half of Nation’s Universities Drop Entry Tests for 2021
98. 15 JunWe Are No. 1! In New Coronavirus Infections
99. 15 JunFDA Drops Trump’s Favorite Drug, Hydroxychloroquine
100. 15 JunShocker! Supreme Court Supports Rights of LGBT Workers
101. 15 JunNew York Times Exposes Charter Schools for Collecting Aid Meant for Small Bisinesses
102. 15 JunYale Drops SAT Requirement for Class Entering in 2021
103. 15 JunJohn Thompson on Trump’s Big Rally in Tulsa
104. 15 JunLittle Rock: Peaceful Protestors Shut Down Four Walmarts
105. 14 JunTwitter Goes Atwitter About Trump’s Health
106. 14 JunPlease Listen to This Hilarious Short Story
107. 14 JunFrank Splitt Reviews SLAYING GOLIATH
108. 14 JunSam Wineburg and Nadav Ziv: Do Not Trust the .org Domain
109. 14 JunMercedes Schneider: TFA Will Send Green Teachers into the Classroom with No Teaching Experience
110. 13 JunA Beautiful Story of a Righteous Man in a POW Camp
111. 13 JunNew Book: Melania Renegotiated Her Prenuptial Deal
112. 13 JunWendy Lecker: Combatting Racism—on the Streets and in School
113. 13 JunSchool Funding in the COVID-19 Era
114. 13 JunNew York Times Endorses Jamaal Bowman for Congress!
115. 12 JunDana Milbank: Crises Multiply, But Republicans in Senate Are Investigating…the 2016 Election!
116. 12 JunTrump and DeVos Push School Choice, No $ for Undocumented
117. 12 JunTrump vs. Congress and the Military re Renaming Bases
118. 12 JunFederal Appeals Court Rules: No Right to Education
119. 12 JunDoyle and Sahlberg: Reopen Schools with a Golden Age of Play!
120. 12 JunJoin Me and Julian Vasquez Heilig in a Zoom Conversation on June 17
121. 12 JunHarold Meyerson: If Biden Wants to Be Like FDR, He Should Dump Summers and Rahm
122. 12 JunMichael Tomasky on Biden’s Shift To the Left
123. 12 JunTrump Will Address GOP on “Axhandle Saturday”
124. 12 JunIn Case You Missed This Great Conversation with Amy Frogge
125. 11 JunJan Resseger: Time to Stop Using Armed Police in Schools
126. 11 JunMercedes Schneider Interviews an ex-TFA of SPED in Chicago
127. 11 JunAlabama: A Charter is Closed Before It Opens
128. 11 JunTom Ultican: The NewSchools Venture Fund, Masters of Disruption
129. 11 JunDana Milbank: Trump Speaks Out on Race–Word for Word
130. 10 JunHappy Birthday, Saul Bellow!
131. 10 JunGates-Funded Fordham Institute Says New Florida Standards Are No Good
132. 10 JunWatters: Toward a Future Of Humanity, Caring, and Grace
133. 10 JunAudrey Watters: From Grief to Resistance
134. 10 JunArkansas: Preparing to Sell the Children to Tech Entrepreneurs
135. 10 JunPennsylvania: Charter Leader Steps Down After Writing that Floyd Protestors “Disgust” Her
136. 10 JunTrump’s Goofiest Lie
137. 9 JunDeVos Insists on Denying Federal CARES Aid to Undocumented Students
138. 9 JunTrump Unilaterally Pulls Significant Number of U.S. Troops Out of Germany, to Spite Angela Merkel
139. 9 JunJamaal Bowman for Congress in the Bronx!
140. 9 JunBoston: “Here’s Monica, with a Sea of People Behind Her”
141. 9 JunColin Powell, GW Bush, Other GOP Leaderrs Will Not Vote for Trump
142. 9 JunDeVos Illegally Seizes $2.2 Billion from Indebted College Students
143. 9 JunInsult of the Day in the Wall Street Journal
144. 8 JunPlease Join Amy Frogge and Me on Wednesday!
145. 8 JunThe Lowdown on Trump’s Photo Op
146. 8 JunA Classic: John Oliver on Charter Schools
147. 8 JunRandy Rainbow Explains Trump’s Latest Tactic
148. 8 JunBob Shepherd on Don the Con
149. 8 JunDid Erik Prince’s Private Militia Infiltrate Peaceful Protests?
150. 8 JunVideo: Watch Bill Gates Defend His Decision to Fund the Common Core
151. 8 JunBob Shepherd: Racism and Mass Incarceration
152. 8 JunWhat Bill Barr Did in 1968
153. 8 JunArthur Camins: Don’t Be Silent!
154. 7 JunRandy Rainbow on “The Bunker Boy”
155. 7 JunJohn Thompson: Save My Former Student
156. 7 JunWatch Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
157. 7 JunG.F. Brandenburg: How to Be an Anti-Fascist Without Breaking a Sweat
158. 7 JunLarry Ferlazzo: Students Will Be Okay This Year, But Not If They Stay Online Next Year
159. 7 JunThe Lincoln Project Lacerates Trump—Again
160. 7 JunNo, the Unemployment Rate Did Not Tumble
161. 6 JunWhat Do We Know About Online Education and Virtual Charter Schools?
162. 6 JunPennsylvania Charter Leader: Protesters “Disgust Me”
163. 6 JunAs Europe Reopens, COVID Remains Under Control
164. 6 Jun89 Former Defense Officials: The Military Must Never Be Used to Violate Constitutional Rights
165. 6 JunTrump Claims that the New Jobs Data Made George Floyd Happy. Is He Insane?
166. 6 JunRandi on Jobs and Racism
167. 5 JunA Conversation with Jitu Brown, Leader of Journey for Justice Alliance, About Racism and Action
168. 5 JunJan Resseger: The Best Post-Pandemic Strategy May Be Community Schools
169. 5 JunAn Explosion of Police Brutality, Encouraged by Trump
170. 5 JunJeff Bryant: The Future of the School Is Not Online. It’s in New Mexico.
171. 4 JunGeneral Kelly Calls Trump a Liar (Or Confused)
172. 4 JunPeter Greene: Why Teach Literature?
173. 4 JunJames Mattis on Trump and the Constitution
174. 4 JunTennessee: Supreme Court Refuses to Stay Voucher Decision
175. 4 JunHarold Meyerson: A Brief History of Sending in the Troops
176. 4 JunStephen Dyer: How Ohioans Can Push Back Against Vouchers
177. 4 JunTrump: The Most Mendacious President Ever: He Is #1
178. 4 JunWhat Is the Boogaloo Movement?
179. 3 JunRobert Kuttner: Reasons for Optimism
180. 3 JunDr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on Non-Violence
181. 3 JunCollege Board Scraps At-Home SAT
182. 3 JunJoe Biden Addresses the Nation
183. 3 JunNancy Bailey Reimagines Schools of the Future
184. 2 JunEvan Osnos: Trump, a Bible, and a Sanctuary
185. 2 JunChaos in Manhattan After Curfew
186. 2 JunTerrence Floyd Speaks Out After His Brother’s Murder
187. 2 JunA Summary of Research Studies About Vouchers
188. 2 JunJennifer Howse: The Absurdity of Trump’s Decision to Leave W.H.O.
189. 2 JunPolitico: States Divided About Following DeVos Guidance to Fund Private Schools
190. 1 JunJoin Jitu Brown and Me on ZOOM on June 3
191. 1 JunTrevor Noah Explains the Social Contract, Broken by Racism
192. 1 JunNorth Carolina: New Study Finds Voucher Schools Are Shielded from Accountability
193. 1 JunLos Angeles: Where Was the Crisis Money Spent?
194. 1 JunLos Angeles: Peaceful Protests Overshadowed by Looting and Vandalism

May 2020

1. 31 MayRed Queen in L.A.: How Did a Peaceful Protest Turn Violent?
2. 31 MayThomas Ultican: Will the Billionaires Buy and Privatize Oakland Public Schools?
3. 31 MayHow Dutch Schools Are Reopening During the Pandemic
4. 31 MayRobert Shepherd’s Glossary of Adjectives to Describe Trump
5. 31 MayDeVos and Mnuchin Sued for Seizing Tax Refunds of Student Debtors
6. 31 MayAmerica Is Burning
7. 31 MayAre the Charters in Your City Getting Small Biz Loans?
8. 30 MayTrump Backs DeVos, Vetoes Effort to Forgive Student Debt to Predatory Colleges
9. 30 MayPhoto of the Year: Whites Protect Black Protestors in Louisville
10. 30 MayIDEA Charter Chain Will Pay Its CEO Tom Torkelsen Severance Pay of $900,000
11. 30 MayStephen Dyer: Vouchers Hurt Poor Kids
12. 30 MayCarol Burris: Charters Are Looting Federal Funds Meant to Save Small Businesses
13. 30 MaySuperintendents to Tech Vendors: “Just Stop It!”
14. 29 MayRobert Kuttner: Say It Ain’t So, Joe
15. 29 MayRacism, Police Brutality, and Our Future
16. 29 MayAmy Frogge, a Hero of the Resistance, Blasts Billionaire Eli Broad and His Broadies
17. 29 MayNashville: School Board Rejected Five Charter Schools
18. 29 MayTrump Administration Still Separating Children from Immigrant Parents
19. 29 MayDistance Learning is Horrible for Kindergarten Students
20. 28 MayOhio Legislators Reject the Vision of the Founding Fathers
21. 28 MayJan Resseger: Congress Must Pass Aid for States to Avoid Economic Disaster
22. 28 MayBurris and Kilfoyle: The Charter Schools That Are Double-Dipping Federal CARES Funds
23. 28 MayDavid Berliner: Kids Missing School? Don’t Worry.
24. 28 MayBetsy DeVos Takes Money from Public Schools and Small Businesses to Advance Her Agenda
25. 27 MayDeVos Insists That Public Schools Must Share Emergency Funds with Private Schools
26. 27 MayAndy Borowitz on Re-Locating GOP Convention
27. 27 MayHow Los Angeles Plans to Reopen
28. 27 MayWall Street Journal: How Schools Are Reopening
29. 27 MayJuan Gonzalez: The Struggle to Save a Public School in New Brunswick, New Jersey, from Corporate Clutches
30. 27 MayHoly Moley: Oklahoma Science Standards Include Evolution and Climate Change
31. 27 MayMother Jones: The Incredible But True Story of ECOT, Ohio’s Virtual Disaster
32. 27 MayMassachusetts: The Challenges of Reopening Schools
33. 26 MayWashington Post: Joe Scarborough Did Not Murder His Staffer
34. 26 MayNYCLU Wins a Victory for Black and Latinx Parents in East Ramapo, New York
35. 26 MayMy Zoom Talk to the Rutgers Conference on Education and Social Justice
36. 26 MayAn Open Letter to Joe Biden
37. 26 MayCongressional Democrats Rebuke DeVos. She Ignores Them.
38. 26 MayG.F. Brandenburg: MAGA is a Fascist Movement
39. 25 MayMy Interview on KFTK in St.Louis: Standardized Testing Must Go
40. 25 MayThe Libertarian Plan to Privatize the Post Office
41. 25 MayCalling Bill Gates! Calling Mark Zuckerberg! Calling Jeff Bezos!
42. 25 MayLaura Chapman: Why Does the Center for American Progress Support the DeVos Agenda?
43. 24 MayListen to My Podcast with “Ed’s Not Dead”
44. 24 MaySmithsonian: What Can We Learn from the Pandemic of 1918?
45. 24 MayNEPC Interview of the Month: Frank Adamson on Privatization Internationally
46. 24 MayNancy Bailey: Teachers Are the Superheroes of the Pandemic
47. 24 MayOur Friend Audrey Watters Suffered a Terrible Loss
48. 23 MayTrump Regime May Conduct First Nuclear Test Since 1992
49. 23 MayFormer Trump Aide Wins $3 Million Contract to Produce Masks, Many Defective
50. 23 MayLos Angeles: After Long Battle, 5 Charter Schools Join UTLA
51. 23 MayKids Are Miserable Because of Distance Learning
52. 23 MayPeter Greene Reviews the CDC Guidance for Reopening Schools During the Pandemic
53. 23 MayChicago Public Schools Decides to Kick Out Privatized Custodial Services
54. 23 MayPaul Tough: Kill the SAT, and Good Riddance
55. 23 MayTrump Says There Will Be No More Shutdowns
56. 22 MayCongress to DeVos: We Did Not Intend to Fund Private Schools; DeVos to Congress: I Don’t Care
57. 22 MayTrump Makes False Claims in Letter to World Health Organization
58. 22 MayLamar Alexander Disagrees with Betsy DeVos About Giving CARES Funds to Private Schools
59. 22 MayMeet a Different Kind of Superintendent
60. 22 MayEducation Law Center Calls on Cuomo to Reject DeVos “Guidance”
61. 22 MayStan Karp: Betsy DeVos Uses the Pandemic to Pursue Her War Against Public Schools
62. 22 MayMy Thoughts on the Election
63. 21 MayA Virtual Choir and Orchestra of 300 Sings “You’ll Never Walk Alone”
64. 21 MayThe New York Philharmonic Honors NYC’s Healthcare Workers
65. 21 MayCommonweal: Trump Administration’s Cruel Efforts to Strangle People of Cuba
66. 21 MaySomeDam Poet: Protect Your Children from the Trolls!
67. 21 MayMichael A. Cohen: The Era of Stupid
68. 21 MayPeter Greene: Kudos to Dr. Les Perelman, the Slayer of the RoboGrader!
69. 21 MayBill Phillis: Ohio Supreme Court Strikes Down Local Control of Schools
70. 21 MayRoss Barkan: Andrew Cuomo’s War on Public Higher Education
71. 20 MayBREAKING NEWS: Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against College Board for Botched AP Exams
72. 20 MayIndiana: State Chief Jennifer McCormick Turns Down DeVos Guidance
73. 20 MayLas Vegas Sun: This is What a Budding Dictatorship Looks Like. Will You Take a Stand?
74. 20 MayThe Girl Who Died Twice
75. 20 MayTennessee Takes DeVos Advice to Give Federal Aid to Private Schools
76. 20 MayArthur Camins: Why We Must Support Biden
77. 20 MayTrump Attacks Medical Researchers Who Cast Doubt on His Favorite Anti-COVID 19 Drug
78. 19 MayGarrison Keillor: Today is the Birthday of Malcolm X
79. 19 MayWhy Are Charter Schools Taking Money Intended to Save Small Businesses?
80. 19 MayValerie Jablow: Why Is D.C. Giving Away Public Space to Charters in Shady Real Estate Deals?
81. 19 MayTexas: Faith-Based Charter School Hopes to Open in Dallas Area
82. 19 MayNorth Carolina: Civil Rights Challenge Charter Schools’ Racial Segregation
83. 18 MayTIME: How the Real Estate Industry Got $160 Billion in the CARES Act
84. 18 MayNew York Times Twists the Facts by “Neutrality”
85. 18 MayAndrea Gabor: States Should Not Forsake the Neediest Children When Setting Budgets
86. 18 MaySteven Singer: Why the Standardized Tests Were Canceled and Might be Canceled Again Next Year
87. 18 MayRandy Abraham: A Few Good Reasons to Support Joe Biden
88. 18 MayThomas Ultican: CREDO Studies Are Biased to Favor Charter Schools
89. 17 MayGarrison Keillor on a Great and Little-Known Inventuon
90. 17 MayNancy Bailey: Who Does the Biden/Sanders Education Unity Panel Unite?
91. 17 MayDavid Kristofferson: The AP Problem Was Caused by the College Board’s Server and Bandwidth, not by Student Browsers
92. 17 MayMercedes Schneider: The College Board Blames Students for Its Botched AP Exams
93. 17 MayAnnie Abrams: Privatization Vultures Are Circling Our Public Schools
94. 16 MayNYC: Carranza Says He Can’t Cut $34 Billion Budget
95. 16 MayMy Pandemic Appearance on the Samantha Bee Show
96. 16 MayDr. Michael Hynes and I Will Talk Next Wednesday: Join Us!
97. 16 MaySPLC: Southern States Slowly Remove Confederate Symbols
98. 16 MayTwo Christian Leaders Speak Out Against Public Funding of Religious Schools
99. 16 MayArthur Goldstein: Will Mitch McConnell Destroy Our Public Services?
100. 15 MayPrestigious Medical Journal Blasts Trump as Incompetent
101. 15 MayOklahoma Legislators Eliminate Local Control of Public Health Decisions
102. 15 MayWatch Randi and Me Talk about What Happens Next
103. 15 MayCorey Robin: Now is the Time to Revive Public Higher Education
104. 15 MayBob Shepherd: What I Hope We Will Learn from the Pandemic
105. 15 MayJohn Thompson on Oklahoma’s Response to the Pandemic
106. 14 MayEva Moskowitz and Success Academy Guilty of Violating State Student Privacy Law
107. 14 MayMarion Brady: Why Not Reform Education from the Bottom Up for a Real Change?
108. 14 MayWatch and Listen to This Fabulous German Chamber Quartet: Funny and Talented!
109. 14 MayWhy the South Is Hard Hit by the Virus
110. 14 MayMercedes Schneider: Success Academy Is Hiring! But Don’t Bother Unpacking.
111. 14 MayMeet Kizzmekia Corbett, the Federal Government’s Lead Researcher on a Coronavirus Vaccine
112. 13 MayCollege Board Rejects AP Tests of Thousands of Students
113. 13 MayGarrison Keillor: The Anniversary of Churchill’s First Speech to Parliament
114. 13 MayNancy Bailey Asked Moms to Reimagine Public Schools: This Is What They Said
115. 13 MayLeonie Haimson: Yes, NYC Can Pay for Smaller Classes: Here Is How
116. 13 MayPalm Beach County: Massive Data Breach!
117. 13 MayMitchell Robinson: “How Is the Teaching Going? Not So Well.”
118. 13 MayLos Angeles: Nightmare Vision as Bain and Company Arrive to “Help” the Schools
119. 12 MayDavid Dayen: Why A Federal Bail Out for Lobbyists?
120. 12 MayGarrison Keillor: Happy Birthday to Edward Lear and Florence Nightingale!
121. 12 MayEducation Law Center: States Should Reject DeVos’ Proposal to Fund Elite Private Schools
122. 12 MayIn Honor of Eric Chasanoff, New York City Public School Teacher
123. 12 MaySwedish Experiment Is Faltering, Says Its Chief Epidemiologist
124. 12 MayLisa Haver: Philadelphia Needs an Elected School Board
125. 12 MayEurope Begins to Reopen Schools, Cautiously
126. 11 MayU. Of California Suspends Use of SAT Until 2024, Maybe Forever
127. 11 MayChalkbeat: No Current NYC Educators Invited to Cuomo’s “Reimagine Education” Task Force
128. 11 MayLaura Chapman: Bad News from Ohio
129. 11 MayThe Beautiful Hit Song from “Dear Evan Hansen”
130. 11 MayJoin Randi and Me on Wednesday at 8:00 pm on ZOOM
131. 11 MayThe True—and Inspiring—Story of “Lord of the Flies”
132. 11 MayTom Ultican Explains To Jay Matthews Why AP Courses Are a Bad Idea
133. 11 MayMessage to Cuomo: Remote Learning Is a Stopgap, Not a Solution
134. 11 MayNew York: Critics of Shoddy Yeshivas Demand Accountability
135. 10 MaySNL: Trump’s Graduation Speech to Class of 2020
136. 10 MayJamelle Boule: This is Not the Time for Progressives to Despair
137. 10 MayPeter Greene: Why Bill Gates Is Not the Right Person to “Reimagine” Education in New York
138. 10 MayGary Rubinstein: TFA Will Train Its New Group Remotely This Summer
139. 10 MayFederal Government Rejected Offer to Purchase Millions of N-95 Masks, Made in America
140. 10 MayNew York Post: Secret Deal Between NYC Mayor De Blasio and Orthodox Jewish Leaders to Stall Report about Investigation of Yeshivas
141. 9 MayJoin Randi and Me to Discuss Reopening of Schools
142. 9 MayDenis Smith: Is Andrew Brenner the Dumbest Politician in Ohio?
143. 9 MayWashington Post: 34 Days of Indecision, Panic, Confusion, Politics–Inside the White House
144. 9 MaySeattle: Beware Coronavirus Capitalism!
145. 9 MayNaomi Klein: Beware the Tech Billionaires and Their “Pandemic Shock Doctrine”
146. 9 MayExcellent Source of Information about Spread of COVID-19: Worldometer
147. 8 MayDana Milbank: Our “Wartime” President Declares Victory After Two Months and Gives Up
148. 8 MayA Rap About Betsy DeVos: RESIGN BETSY
149. 8 MayArthur Camins: We Need a Government Accountable to the American People!
150. 8 MayKaren Tumulty: Spare Us All from Jared Kushner
151. 8 MayMichigan: District Votes to Turn Alternative School into Virtual School
152. 8 MayDoyle and Hynes: We Welcome Bill Gates to New York if He Agrees to Three Conditions
153. 7 MayRemember the Tradition of Bipartisanship in National Crisis? Trump Doesn’t
154. 7 MayNancy Bailey: How Betsy DeVos Fostered Squalid Learning Conditions in Detroit
155. 7 MayArthur Goldstein: Andrew Cuomo is a Cynical Liar
156. 7 MayDaniel Katz: What Cuomo Really Said About Reinventing Schools
157. 7 MayNew York: Cuomo’s Pathetic Attempt to Pretend He is Not Really Asking Bill Gates to Reinvent Education
158. 7 MayWhat George Conway Wrote About Trump, the Loser-in-Chief
159. 7 MayTeacher Ken Calls Attention to George Conway’s Latest Blast at Don the Con
160. 6 MayRep. DeLauro Denounces DeVos Rule to Water Down Protection for Rape Victims
161. 6 MayTell Governor Cuomo and Bill Gates: Hands Off Our Public Schools!
162. 6 MayNY: Cuomo Adds Another Billionaire To His Team to “Reimagine” Education Post-Pandemic
163. 6 MayTake a Tour of the Luscious Cherry Blossom Trees in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
164. 6 MayBill Becker: What Is Joe Biden’s Vision for Climate Change and Energy?
165. 6 MayShawgi Tell: Charter Entrepreneurs Cash in on Public Funding During Pandemic
166. 6 MayA Brief History of Anti-Government Rhetoric
167. 6 MaySteven Singer: Save Our Schools from the Biggest Budget Cuts in History
168. 6 MayHow New Zealand Effectively Eliminated Coronavirus
169. 6 MayNew Evidence That Children Transmit the Virus
170. 5 MayNew York: Parent Groups Denounce Cuomo Outreach to Gates
171. 5 MayTrump and Conway Have a Slugfest on Twitter
172. 5 MayNightmare Vision for New York Schools Post-Pandemic
173. 5 MayWashington Post: Trump Blocks All Oversight by Congress
174. 5 May“The Economist” Says Schools Should Reopen Immediately
175. 5 MayMercedes Schneider: Why is Eva Moskowitz Laying Off Staff While Hiring New Staff?
176. 5 MayStudy: Watching Sean Hannity Contributed to Spread of Coronavirus
177. 5 MayJoe Biden and Elizabeth Warren: There’s No Oversight of Coronavirus Relief–Because That’s What Trump Wants
178. 5 MayTennessee: Details About the Ruling Against Vouchers
179. 5 MayBREAKING NEWS: Tennessee Judge Declares Voucher Law Unconstitutional
180. 4 MayJustin Trudeau Bans All Military-Grade Weapons in Canada
181. 4 MayDenis Smith: The Mystery of the Memorial to Governor Rhodes
182. 4 MayValerie Jablow: Why Does D.C. Government Give Away Public Property?
183. 4 MayJohn Ewing: We Should Listen to the Real Education Experts: Teachers
184. 4 MayTexas: Parent Complains to State Superintendent About Approval of Unwanted Charter School
185. 4 MaySocial Justice Catholics Speak Out Against Cardinal Dolan’s Support for Trump
186. 3 MaySeven Northeastern States Form Consortium to Buy PPE
187. 3 MayNew York City: Don’t Cut the Budget of Our Public Schools!
188. 3 MayStephanie Jones: Which Part of the Pandemic is a Real Crisis?
189. 3 MayPeter Greene: Catholic Leaders Make a Deal with Trump
190. 3 MayCalifornia: Charter Leaders Charged with Breaking Securities Law; No Criminal Charges
191. 3 MayElite Private Schools Collect Federal Aid, Including Barron Trump’s
192. 3 MayGary Rubinstein: What Percent of Success Academy’s Students Graduated?
193. 2 MayNPE Grassroots Education Network Invites You to Join!
194. 2 MayGregB.: Do We Really Care About Life?
195. 2 MayNorman Solomon: Trump is a Neo-Fascist
196. 2 MayMercedes Schneider: Jeb Bush Wants Relief $$ for Private Schools
197. 2 MaySahlberg and Doyle on the Play Revolution on Long Island
198. 1 MayCongressional Leaders Rebuke DeVos for Excluding 7.5 Million Students from Emergency Aid
199. 1 MayBoston Globe: New Report Details Harvard Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
200. 1 MayTwice Denied Testing, Young Black Teacher Dies of COVID-19
201. 1 MayLuxury Hotel Provides Free Housing for Health Care Workers
202. 1 MayEdweek: A Third of Teachers Are at Risk of Severe Illness from COVID-19
203. 1 MayDana Milbank: Can the Coronavirus Be Defeated by Lies?
204. 1 MayJohn Merrow: What’s Needed Now: Think Like a Librarian!
205. 1 MayPeter Greene: What Happens to “Accountability” After the Pandemic?

April 2020

1. 30 AprA Conversation about the Pandemic and Early Childhood Education
2. 30 AprJan Resseger: The Pandemic Shows Why Betsy DeVos Is Wrong
3. 30 AprTom Ultican: Who Paid to Make Indianapolis the Second Most Privatized School District in the Nation?
4. 30 AprAndy Hargreaves: What We Have Learned So Far from the Coronavirus Pandemic
5. 30 AprGary Rubinstein: KIPP Flees the Edsel of School Reform in Tennessee
6. 30 AprAFT Releases Guidelines to Reopen Schools
7. 29 AprCuomo Forms Task Force of 116 to Plan Reopening of New York, Without Any K-12 Educators
8. 29 AprTeachers Unions Warn of Strikes and Protests if Schools Are Opened Too Soon
9. 29 AprAndrew Cuomo Wants to Cut Billions from Public Services But Will Not Raise Taxes on the 1%
10. 29 AprStop Cuomo’s Devastating Budget Cuts Now!
11. 29 AprNancy Bailey: 8 Ways to Save Public Schools from Draconian Budget Cuts
12. 29 AprWatch Tennessee Voucher Trial Live— Now
13. 29 AprChristine Langhoff: The Great Boston School Heist
14. 29 AprIn the Public Interest: The Pandemic Reminds Us of the Importance of Public Schools
15. 29 AprCorruption Watch: DeVos Awarded $72 Million to IDEA Charter Chain Despite Negative Staff Reviews!
16. 29 AprLos Angeles: UTLA Responds to Governor Newsom’s Suggestion to Open Schools in Mid-Summer
17. 29 AprCalifornia: Will Schools Open in Late July or Early August?
18. 29 AprThe Federal Reserve Is Giving $500 Billion to Large Corporations without Restrictions
19. 28 AprBREAKING NEWS! Trump Suggests Governors Should Consider Reopening Schools
20. 28 AprBald Piano Guy Serenades Betsy DeVos!
21. 28 AprThis is What National Leadership Looks Like: Angela Merkel
22. 28 AprGary Rubinstein: Some TFA Leaders Can’t Stop Bashing Teachers
23. 28 AprYou Read It Here First: Betsy Uses Relief Funds to Push Vouchers and Online Ed
24. 28 AprEleven Warning Signs that Privatizers Are Invading Your School District During the Pandemic
25. 27 AprWatch Steven Sondheim’s 90th Tonight: “Take Me to the World”
26. 27 AprSecretary DeVos’ Sneaky Effort to Divert Coronavirus Dollars to Virtual Charters and Non-Public Schools
27. 27 AprRep. DeLauro Criticizes Betsy DeVos for Using Coronavirus Relief Funds to Promote Vouchers
28. 27 AprTennessee: Court Hearing April 29 on Vouchers
29. 27 AprCarol Burris on NPE Survey of Emergency Remote Learning
30. 27 AprIn America, Farmers Destroy Their Crops–While People are Starving
31. 27 AprPeter Greene: A Pathetic Attempt, Funded by Billionaires, to Revive the Big Standatdized Tests
32. 27 AprJeff Bryant: How Betsy DeVos Is Using the Pandemic to Push Her Privatization Agenda for Charters and Vouchers
33. 26 AprDid the Pandemic Come Out of Nowhere? The Washington Post Says No
34. 26 AprRandy Rainbow: A Spoonful of Disinfectant Knocks the Coronavirus Out
35. 26 AprOklahoma: Governor Stitt Puts Trumpism Above Reality and Common Sense
36. 26 AprMichael Hynes: A New Vision for Education After the Pandemic
37. 25 AprA Statement by the Center for Educational Equity on the Landmark Detroit Decision
38. 25 AprTexas: Public Schools Outperform Charter Schools
39. 25 AprTexas: Charter Schools Grow Rapidly Despite Inferior Performance Compared to Public Schools
40. 25 AprCarl Cohn: Teachers Are the Foundation for Superintendents’ Success Plus Some Memories of San Diego
41. 25 AprVicki Cobb: Why Does Science Matter?
42. 25 AprNY Times: Economic Stimulus Bill is a Bonanza for Wealthiest
43. 24 AprNew York City: Parents and Advocates Write to Mayor and Chancellor
44. 24 AprArkansas: An Urgent Appeal to State Officials
45. 24 AprHelp Amy McGrath Defeat Mitch McConnell! Save America from the Grim Reaper!
46. 24 AprArkansas: Reasons Why Governor Hutchinson Should Care About Virus in the Prisons
47. 24 AprHail and Farewell! Achieve Is Finished!
48. 24 AprWilliam Doyle and Pasi Sahlberg Explain to Checker Finn Why Play Is Good for ALL Children
49. 24 AprManufacturer of Lysol: Please Don’t Drink Lysol
50. 24 AprFormer Labradoodle Breeder Selected to Lead U.S. Coronavirus Task Force
51. 24 AprMitch McConnell to Kentucky and Other States: Drop Dead!
52. 24 AprFOX News Falls Silent About Trump’s Favorite Virus Drug
53. 23 AprMichigan: Federal Appeals Court Rules that Students in Detroit Have a Fundamental Right to Literacy
54. 23 AprTeresa Hanafin: There He Goes Again, More Lies from the Trumpeter
55. 23 AprDavid Dayen: Who Will the Federal Reserve Bail Out? Big Corporations? Wall Street?
56. 23 AprSenate Intelligence Committee Agrees that Russia Intervened in 2016 Election
57. 23 AprAlexander and Blunt: Government Needs a “Shark Tank” Competition to Produce More Virus Tests
58. 23 AprNAEP Scores Drop in History, Civics: DeVos Blames Public Schools, Not NCLB, RTTT, ESSA, CCSS
59. 23 AprGeorge Packer: America Is a Failed State
60. 23 AprHeritage Foundation’s “National Coronavirus Task Force” Recommends Universal Vouchers and Uncertified Teachers
61. 22 AprStuart Egan: The Step-by-Step Destruction of Democracy in North Carolina
62. 22 AprAndy Hargreaves: What to Do and What Not to Do When You Are Teaching Kids at Home
63. 22 AprNYC: Success Academy Lays Off Employees, Fires Teachers
64. 22 AprAn Open Letter to Joe Biden, by Diane Ravitch and Carol Burris
65. 21 AprCDC Director Warns of Resurgence of Virus Next Winter
66. 21 AprBetsy DeVos Hands Out Another $200 Million, Mostly to Rich Corporate Charter Chains
67. 21 AprPeter Greene: Why Business Ideas Don’t Work in Education
68. 21 AprJohn Thompson Reviews Rachel Maddow’s Book “Blowout”
69. 21 AprSteven Singer: No, You Can’t Risk My Children’s Lives to Restart Your Economy
70. 20 AprCharles Blow: Stop Covering Trump’s Fake Daily Briefings
71. 20 AprJonathan Lovell: Rest In Peace, Dear Friend
72. 20 AprBoston Globe: Parents Are Frustrated by Trying to School Their Children at Home
73. 20 AprAn End to Schooling as We Know It? To Grocery Stores? To Concerts? To Live Plays? To Dances? To Offices?
74. 20 AprNancy Bailey: Stop the Talk about “Reinventing” and “Reimagining” Schools After the Pandemic Unless You Are a Parent or Teacher
75. 19 AprWashington Post: Trump’s Claims About WHO Were Wrong
76. 19 AprLeonie Haimson: Why is NYC Spending Millions on Idle Buses?
77. 19 AprSan Francisco School Board Decides to Give All Students an A
78. 19 AprTim Wu: How America Outsourced Its Ability to Fight Pandemic
79. 19 AprCEO of Scandal-Ridden IDEA Charter Chain Resigns
80. 19 AprAn Open Letter to the New New Left from the Old New Left: Vote for Biden
81. 18 AprWashington Post: U.S. Shipped Millions of Dollars of Face Masks, Ventilators to China in January
82. 18 AprTeachers and Principals in Oakland Give More to Neediest than Billionaires
83. 18 AprCNN: Four Countries that Were Most Successful in Confronting Pandemic
84. 18 AprNew York Times: Kids Say They Miss School
85. 18 AprRichard Rothstein: Pandemic Reveals Dramatic Economic and Social Inequities
86. 18 AprChalkbeat: Big Education Philanthropists Are Missing in Action on Coronavirus Response
87. 18 AprFOX New Guests Withdraw Their Statements About Coronavirus
88. 18 AprDana Milbank: Trump’s Big Lie About the World Health Organization
89. 17 AprTrump Openly Foments Domestic Rebellion
90. 17 AprNPE ACTION ENDORSES JOE BIDEN!
91. 17 AprDon’t Miss It! Cirque du Soleil is Live-Streaming Tonight for Free!
92. 17 AprNew York Review of Books: Trump’s Responsibility for the Spread of Coronavirus
93. 17 AprPeter Greene: What Should We Measure When School Re-Opens?
94. 17 AprJack Schneider: Pandemic Lays Bare the Gaping Inequities in Our Society
95. 17 AprLaura Chapman: What “Money Follows the Child” Really Means
96. 16 AprSAT Will Offer Tests Online, Without Supervision
97. 16 AprDana Milbank: Is Trump Comparing Himself to Captain Bligh or Captain Queeg?
98. 16 AprPhoenix: COVID patient Saved by Rare and Risky Blood Treatment
99. 16 AprStephen Dyer: Charter Schools Admit They Are Not Public Schools
100. 16 AprSeth Sandronsky Interviews Mercedes Schneider about the Virus and Standardized Tests
101. 16 AprLenore Skenazy: Let Your Children Play
102. 16 AprDavid Deming: Technology Is No Substitute for Real Teachers!
103. 16 AprTrump Threatens to Adjourn Congress and Push Through Nominees
104. 15 AprHave You Seen Any Daffodils This Spring?
105. 15 AprThe Intercept: How Trump’s Propaganda Video Backfired
106. 15 AprBob Greenberg: Prominent Educators Explain Why Their Teachers Made a Difference for Them
107. 15 AprParent: I Refuse to Run a Coronavirus Homeschool
108. 15 AprSomeDAM Poet on the $2 Trillion Bailout
109. 15 AprNancy Bailey: Beware the Vultures!
110. 15 AprIndependent Study: Most Relief $$ Flow to Richest
111. 14 AprHappy Birthday! Noah Webster’s Dictionary!
112. 14 AprBrazil Halts Trial of Trump’s Favorite Drug Because of Risks
113. 14 AprSouth Dakota: Governor Refuses to Take Action to Protect Against Coronavirus
114. 14 AprThe Washington Post Gives Trump 4 Pinocchios for Touting Unproven Drug
115. 14 AprA Wonderful Must-See Story: The Original Cast of “Hamilton” Re-unites!
116. 14 AprLaura Chapman: School Choice, the Pandemic, and Federal Policy
117. 14 AprGary Rubinstein: Teacher Bashers Just Can’t Stop, Even Now
118. 14 Apr“The Coronavirus Just Might End School Privatization Nonsense”
119. 14 AprWisconsin: Liberals Win Crucial Seat on State Court
120. 13 AprNow, Sign This Petition to Save IDEA
121. 13 AprWatch George Gilder Pander to Trump’s Gut
122. 13 AprNational Education Leaders Worry That Students Will Fall Behind During School Closures
123. 13 AprLos Angeles: No Student Will Get an F and Schools Will be Closed Until the Fall
124. 13 AprTom Ultican: Billionaire-Funded Group Claims Progressive Are Most Inequitable
125. 13 AprPeter Greene: Betsy DeVos Shows Why We Need a Secretary of Education Who Is an Educator
126. 13 AprVicki Cobb: Why Do So Many People Refuse to Believe Proven Facts?
127. 13 AprDavid Berliner: How “Successful” Charter Schools Cull and Skim Students They Don’t Want
128. 13 AprSouth Dakota: Major Meat Processor Closing
129. 12 AprL.A. Times: Trump Scrambling to Restore Budget Cuts to Health Agencies
130. 12 AprJohann Neem: On Unbecoming American
131. 12 AprGarrison Keillor on Easter
132. 12 AprNew York City: At Least 40 Educators Dead of Virus But Department of Education Refuses to Release Their Names
133. 12 AprA Special Message to the Readers of This Blog
134. 11 AprNew York: Parents Call on Mayor and Governor to Stop Squabbling
135. 11 AprWeber Middle School Chorus: “Seasons of Love”
136. 11 AprThe Getty Museum Invites Home Artists to Create Their Own
137. 11 AprWhat Public School Employees Need to Know about the CARES Law
138. 11 AprWilliam Doyle and Pasi Sahlberg: This Is What Should Change After the Pandemic
139. 11 AprIs Distance Learning the Wave of the Future?
140. 11 AprDana Milbank: When You Drown Government in a Bathtub, People Die
141. 10 AprWorld Bank Changes Policy on For-Profit Privatized Schools
142. 10 AprCleveland: Billionaire-Owned Corporation Kills Local Newspaper
143. 10 AprWisconsin: How the GOP Sabotaged the Primary
144. 10 AprWatch This 5-Minute Video About the Nefarious Goal of EduBusiness
145. 10 AprG.F. Brandenburg: Who Is Getting $2 Trillion?
146. 9 AprUpdate: Wall Street Journal: Trump’s Daily Briefings Are a Waste of Time
147. 9 AprFor-Profit Colleges, Under Investigation, May Collect $1 Billion in Federal Bailout Money
148. 9 AprLos Angeles: The New Reality: Overwhelmed. Isolated. Unfocused. Very Stressed.
149. 9 AprFinland Has a Full Stockpile of Emergency Supplies
150. 9 AprA Protest Against Distance Learning
151. 8 AprSave IDEA! Sign This Petition to Betsy DeVos!
152. 8 AprOutrage: Charters Pursue Federal Small Business Funds
153. 8 AprJohn Thompson: Beware the Virtual Charter Scam!
154. 8 AprTom Ultican: Two Books You Will Enjoy Reading
155. 8 AprHow a Country Doctor Became a Rightwing Star
156. 8 AprTwo Views on After The Pandemic: What Happens in Schools?
157. 7 AprTrump Fires Inspector General in Charge of $2 Trillion Relief Fund
158. 7 AprTennessee: Parents and Civil Rights Groups Sue to Block Vouchers
159. 7 AprThe Lost Month: A Failure to Act, a Failure to Test
160. 7 AprThe Lost Two Months: The Failure of the Trump Administration to Protect Americans Against the Pandemic
161. 7 AprWendy Lecker: What We Learned About Public Schools During the Pandemic
162. 7 AprPaul Waldman: The Time to Reform Healthcare Is Now
163. 6 AprNew York: Regents’ Exams Canceled This Year
164. 6 AprTrump Uses His Bully Pulpit to Tout Unproven Drug
165. 6 AprMissouri: Professor of Economics Renounces Award to Protest Donor Influence
166. 6 AprEsquire: This Is Not the Time for Ignorant Leaders
167. 6 Apr“The Prom Will Not Be Webcast”
168. 6 AprAfter the Pandemic: My Hopes for the Future of Schooling
169. 6 AprMax Boot: The Worst President. Ever.
170. 5 AprSome Musicals and Theatrical Productions You Can Stream for Free
171. 5 AprAndrea Gabor: Online Learning Encounters Obstacles
172. 5 AprWarning: “The Next Two Weeks Will Be a Combination of Pearl Harbor and 9/11”
173. 5 AprThe Best Video You Will See About the Global Shutdown! (Video restored!)
174. 5 AprJeanette Deutermann: A Message to Parents and Teachers: EMPATHY!
175. 5 AprJoy Hakim: Online Lessons by a Storyteller
176. 4 AprWonderful News! Bill Gates Will Fund Factories To Produce Vaccines!
177. 4 AprValerie Strauss on the Shutdown of Zoom Because of “Zoombombing”
178. 4 AprNew York City Department of Education Forbids Use of ZOOM Due to Concerns about Privacy, Security
179. 4 AprNew York City Offers Free Meals to All During Crisis
180. 4 AprPaul Thomas: Two Cases of “Epistemic Trespassing”
181. 4 AprA Teacher in South Dakota: I Will Not Send Home Any Packets
182. 4 AprCarol Burris: Charter Schools Ask for Federal Money Though They Suffered No Loss
183. 3 AprExperts Question Validity of Trump’s Estimate of Virus Deaths
184. 3 AprUtah: Governor Vetoes Voucher Proposal
185. 3 AprLeonie Haimson Interviews Randi Weingarten About the Crisis
186. 3 AprAdvice to Parents: Forget the Worksheets!
187. 3 AprL.A. Times: Trump Administration Killed Program to Predict Pandemics Before They Start
188. 3 AprJohn Merrow Proves That the Public Admires and Respects Teachers
189. 2 AprDavid Weigel: Republicans Block Vote-By-Mail as a Democratic Plot
190. 2 AprThe States That Are Ignoring The Virus
191. 2 AprUniversity of California Relaxes Admissions Requirements
192. 2 AprLos Angeles: Large Number of Students Get No Instruction
193. 2 AprGene Glass: New Study Finds That Charter Schools Receive More Funding Than Public Schools
194. 2 AprHappy Decade of Blogging, Jersey Jazzman!
195. 2 AprGeorgians: Do You Listen to God or Science or Both?
196. 1 AprTeresa Hanafin: Why South Korea Has Been Successful in Slowing the Virus
197. 1 AprDeVos Plans to Release New Rules for Title IX
198. 1 AprLincoln Center Presents Concerts for Kids
199. 1 AprThe Biggest Fool on April 1
200. 1 AprCarol Burnett: The Funniest Comedian?
201. 1 Apr22 Musicals in 12 Minutes!
202. 1 AprRobert Shepherd: Parody of a Trump Press Conference
203. 1 AprWho Will Win Bigly on Easter Sunday?
204. 1 AprCalifornia: State Superintendent Thurmond Says Schools Probably Will Not Open Again This School Year

March 2020

1. 31 MarTeresa Hanafin on Trump’s Change of Mind
2. 31 MarTrump Administration Lowers Fuel Economy Standards
3. 31 MarLeonie Haimson Interviews Randi Weingarten on April 1: Tune In
4. 31 MarCan Trump Suspend the 2020 Election? Will Cuomo Be the Democratic Candidate?
5. 31 MarEdWeek: As Kids Use Tech, Privacy Concerns Grow
6. 31 MarVicki Cobb: Why Trust Science?
7. 31 MarJohn Ogozalek: Getting Perspective in a Time of Despair
8. 30 MarYou Are Invited: A Webinar about the Koch Machine
9. 30 MarWired: Billionaire Philanthropists Should Not Be Responsible for Solving Public Problems
10. 30 MarJan Resseger is Smarter Than Me: This Post Proves It
11. 30 MarValerie Strauss: Parents Learn to Respect Teachers Now That Children Are Home
12. 30 MarThe Pandemic Reminds Us of the Value of Public Schools
13. 29 Mar“Teacher Parades”: I Love You and I Miss You
14. 29 MarMichigan: Governor Whitmer is a Trump Target Because….
15. 29 MarTrump Cabinet’s Bible Teacher Blames Pandemic on Gays and Environmentalists
16. 29 MarTom Ultican: Billionaire Philanthropists Accelerate Attacks on Public Schools During Pandemic
17. 29 MarSalon: Trump Is Creating a Mental Health Crisis That Will Worsen the Pandemic
18. 29 MarNancy Bailey: How to Help Students Improve Their Reading and Writing
19. 28 MarTrump Makes Decisions Based on Personal Grievances
20. 28 MarThe Daily Howler: We Live in North Korea Now
21. 28 MarJohn Merrow: Please Don’t Call It “Homeschooling”
22. 28 MarTrump Demands His Signature on All Disaster Relief Checks
23. 28 MarTom Scarice: Look for the Acts of Kindness
24. 28 MarLittle Rock: Parents and Activists Fight Against Sham of “Restoring Local Control”
25. 28 MarPeter Greene: Why AI Will Not Drive Trucks or Replace Teachers
26. 28 MarNew York Times: Trump Lies, Boasts, Lies, Boasts
27. 27 MarRobert Kuttner Explains Why Conservatives Want to Limit Unemployment Insurance
28. 27 MarSing “Happy Birthday” to the Woman Who Wrote the Song
29. 27 MarGarrison Keillor: Today is Typhoid Mary’s Birthday
30. 27 MarNew Fear Expressed by Scientists: Their Work Is Viewed as a Hoax
31. 27 MarStephen Dyer: Ohio Legislature Continues to Be Obsessed by Vouchers
32. 27 MarWhy Nationwide Mail-In Voting Will Be Problematic
33. 27 MarToronto Symphony Orchestra Challenges Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra!
34. 27 MarAn Interview with a Conservative Talk Show Host in St. Louis
35. 26 MarHarold Meyerson: How Mean Are Senate Republicans?
36. 26 MarA Wise Superintendent Offers Counsel for Our Times
37. 26 MarArt Conquers Isolation! Watch, Listen, Share
38. 26 MarJennifer Senior: Trump’s Press Conferences Are Propaganda
39. 26 MarJohn Richard Schrock: Distance Learning Is Inferior to Human Interaction
40. 25 MarRandi Has a Good Idea for the End of the School Year
41. 25 MarGeorge Packer: Trump Is Winning His War Against Our Institutions
42. 25 MarWashington State: Gov. Inslee Signs Bill Aiding Gates’ Charter Schools
43. 25 MarJeff Bryant: The Pandemic May Blunt the Drive for High-Stakes Testing and Privatization
44. 24 MarWatch and Enjoy the Chamber Singers at Chino Hills High School in California
45. 24 MarNPE Action Endorses Joyce Elliott for Congress in Arkansas!
46. 24 MarA Desperate Mother’s Prayer as She Homeschools
47. 24 MarPolitico: Republicans Oppose Student Debt Relief As Part of Crisis Deal
48. 23 MarGarrison Keillor: It Was on This Day That…
49. 23 MarJan Resseger: Is Ohio Senate Using the Crisis to Expand Vouchers?
50. 23 MarLos Angeles: Schools Discover Snafus of Distance Learning
51. 23 MarMercedes Schneider: A Letter from Louisiana’s Teacher of the Year to the Class of 2020
52. 23 MarAn Appeal to Educators and Scholars of Color: Please Sign This Statement!
53. 23 MarStephen Sawchuk: This Was the Week We Learned How Vital Our Public Schools Are
54. 22 MarAFT Endorses Joe Biden
55. 22 MarNew York Times: Trump’s Response to Crisis
56. 22 MarIs Congress Using Crisis to Suspend IDEA?
57. 22 MarArthur Camins: A Bernie Supporter Says “Vote Blue”
58. 22 MarA Mother’s Lament about Distance Learning
59. 22 MarRobin Lithgow: Why Did A Wealthy Plantation Owner Bring an American Poet to El Salvador to Tell Its Story?
60. 21 MarLawrence Baines: A Short Video about the Dangers of Privatization of Our Public Institutions
61. 21 MarAdvice from Your Online School Nurse
62. 21 MarDavid Leonhardt: What Trump Has Said About Coronavirus
63. 21 MarLessons from the 1918 Flu Pandemic, When Many Schools Closed
64. 20 MarNew York: State Tests for Grades 3-8 Cancelled
65. 20 MarChalkbeat: Only 10 Black Students Offered Admission to NYC’s Most Selective Public High School
66. 20 MarDoug Little: Lessons for Canada in SLAYING GOLIATH
67. 20 MarA Parent Who Is Home Schooling Thanks Teachers
68. 20 MarThe Nation Investigates the Charity of the Gates Foundation and Asks “Who Benefits?”
69. 20 MarPolitico: What’s Known, What’s Not Known about the Epidemic
70. 19 MarThe Status of State Testing Right Now
71. 19 MarStuart Egan: Teachers in North Carolina Raised All the Right Issues When They Protested Last Year
72. 19 MarErica Green Was Right When She Wrote That Schools Should Close for at Least 8 Weeks
73. 19 MarSam Chaltain: A Parent’s Guide to Home Schooling
74. 19 MarNEPC: There Is No “Science of Reading”
75. 19 MarNew Orleans: VAM Proves that Best Teachers Stay in Best Charters
76. 19 MarCalifornia: Teachers Thank Gov. Newsom for Canceling Testing During Crisis
77. 18 MarNew York: Testing Madness! ELA Tests Are Not Suspended. Mailing Them to Districts Is.
78. 18 MarTeresa Hanafin: What Trump Said About the Pandemic
79. 18 MarHappy Birthday, Wilfred Owen
80. 18 MarRussia Will Change Constitution for Putin
81. 18 MarRandy Rainbow on the Coronavirus Crisis
82. 18 MarArizona: SOS Arizona Needs Your Help to Stop Growth of Vouchers Forever!
83. 18 MarNancy Bailey: Online Learning Can Never Replace Human Teachers
84. 18 MarNew York: State Suspends 3-8 ELA Tests
85. 18 MarKansas Update: School Buildings Will Close, Not School
86. 18 MarCalifornia: Governor Says Schools Likely to Close for Rest of Year
87. 18 MarKansas: Governor Closes Schools for Rest of Year
88. 17 MarColorado Cancels State Testing
89. 17 MarHappy, St. Patrick’s Day, Sort Of
90. 17 MarNote to Ohio: Lincoln Did Not Cancel 1864 Election
91. 17 MarProvidence: New State Takeover Superintendent Rolls Out Initial Plans
92. 17 MarFareed Zakaria: Why Is the U.S. Response to the Crisis Inept?
93. 17 MarPeter Greene: This is What Administrators Are Supposed to Do
94. 17 MarWilliam Mathis: An Absurd Argument for Expanding Vouchers in Wisconsin
95. 16 MarTrump Administration Outsources Coronavirus Testing
96. 16 MarTexas Waives State Tests for the 2020 Year
97. 16 MarBloomberg Aide: If GOP Attacks Hunter Biden, the Trump Children Will Be Exposed as Grifters in a “Scorched Earth” Fusillade
98. 16 MarJohn Thompson: How Can Teachers Help Students Who Are Traumatized by Life and Death Experiences?
99. 16 MarLeonard Lopate Interviews Me on WBAI Radio about SLAYING GOLIATH
100. 16 MarIf Schools Close Because of the Coronavirus, Prepare to Help the Neediest Kids and Families
101. 16 MarSteven Singer: When Public Schools Recover, Skip the Tests
102. 16 MarLarry Cuban Remembers the Unknown Virus That Terrified Children When He Was a Child
103. 15 MarCSPAN Book TV: My Conversation about SLAYING GOLIATHwith Susan Solomon in San Francisco: FULL VERSION
104. 15 MarWashington State: All Standardized Tests Canceled for Students for Spring 2020
105. 15 MarNorth Carolina: Governor Cooper Closes All Schools for at Least Two Weeks
106. 15 MarErica Green Clarifies CDC Story in New York Times
107. 15 MarMy Failed Effort to Correct News about the CDC’s Advice to Schools
108. 15 MarNew York: A Petition to Governor Cuomo and State Board to Close the Schools
109. 15 MarWashington State: Schools Will Close Until at Least April 27; Testing May Be Canceled
110. 15 MarNEA, Nation’s Largest Union, Endorses Biden
111. 14 MarWashington Post: Trump is Breaking Every Rule in the CDC’s 450-page Playbook for Health Crisis
112. 14 MarCorrection: This is What the CDC Recommends for Schools During This Time of Crisis
113. 14 MarSteve Hinnefeld: Now is the Time to Cancel State Testing
114. 14 MarCenter for Disease Control Recommends That Schools Close for Eight Weeks, and ED Department Willing to Waive Testing Rules
115. 14 MarA Controversial Interview about SLAYING GOLIATH with Larry Mantle of NPR, Southern California
116. 14 MarKatherine Stewart: Trump Gives Rightwing Christian Nationalists Whatever They Want
117. 13 MarLos Angeles and San Diego Announce that Public Schools Will Close
118. 13 MarArkansas: Activists Keep Up the Struggle to Regain Democratic Control of the Little Rock Public Schools
119. 13 MarRandi Weingarten: How to Respond to the Coronavirus
120. 13 MarCoronavirus Crisis: Nearly One-Quarter of Schools Have No School Nurse
121. 13 MarWhy Won’t Trump Declare a National Emergency?
122. 13 MarJeanne Kaplan: What’s the Matter with the New Denver Board of Education?
123. 13 MarTeacher Responds to Review of SLAYING GOLIATH in “The New York Times”
124. 13 MarK-12 Teacher: Why I Oppose the Common Core Math Standards
125. 13 MarWatch the Brilliant Katie Porter Force the Director of CDC to Guarantee Free Testing for Coronavirus
126. 13 MarLos Angeles: UTLA Calls on Superintendent and Board to Close the Schools and Create Support System for Students
127. 12 MarOhio: Governor DeWine Announces Three-Week Spring Break and Says Don’t Worry about the State Tests
128. 12 MarDemocrats Propose a Response to the Coronavirus. Republicans Say No, We Need Tax Cuts.
129. 12 MarSt. Paul, Minnesota: Teachers Strike to Demand More Investment in Services for Their Student
130. 12 MarCritic of NPE “Asleep at the Wheel” Advocates for Vouchers with Weak Reasoning and a Mathematical Error
131. 12 MarCalifornia: Appeals Court Rules That Non-Profit Charter Schools Are Not Exempt from Taxation
132. 12 MarFlorida: Republican State Senator is Tired of Micromanaging Public Schools While Focusing Only on School Choice
133. 12 MarFlorida: House Passes Bill to Protect “Parents’ Rights” vs. School System
134. 12 MarFlorida: House Rejects Bill to Ban LGBT Discrimination in Voucher Schools
135. 12 MarTrump Speaks to the Nation from the Oval Office about the Coronavirus
136. 11 MarBipartisan Senate Votes to Reject DeVos’s Effort to Restrict Debt Relief for Defrauded Students
137. 11 MarTeresa Hanafin on the Latest Madness from D.C.
138. 11 MarTrump Allies Got Virus Tests, But Not the Public
139. 11 MarHappy Birthday, Mary Shelley and Ezra Jack Keats!
140. 11 MarOklahoma: When Public Money Goes to a Charter School, Does the Money Belong to the Public?
141. 11 MarOklahoma: EPIC Charter Graduates Zip Through Classes but Are Not College Ready
142. 11 MarAnother Study: Students Experience Academic Decline in Virtual Charter Schools
143. 11 MarNew York: Cancel the State Tests NOW!
144. 11 MarGary Rubinstein Debunks TFA Claims of “Turnaround Schools” in Baltimore
145. 11 MarCDC Director Disagrees with Trump Claim That Southern Border Wall Will Contain Virus
146. 10 MarURGENT! NPE 2020 Conference Cancelled
147. 10 MarNew York City: My NYU Lecture Cancelled Due to University Closing Classes
148. 10 MarIDEA Charter Chain and Its High-Spending Ways
149. 10 MarPreet Bharara: Donald Trump is the Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on America
150. 10 MarAudrey Watters: Will the Ed-Tech Industry Take Advantage of the Coronavirus Crisis?
151. 10 MarMike Deshotels: Every Reform Imposed in Louisiana Has Failed and Harmed Children
152. 9 MarJohn Ogozalek: What Teachers Can Do to Help During Epidemic Crisis
153. 9 MarBacklash Against Ed Tech in the Classroom
154. 9 MarWendy Lecker, Civil Rights Lawyer, Reviews SLAYING GOLIATH
155. 9 MarBill Phillis: Ohio Has Diverted $14.7 Billion to Charters and Vouchers
156. 8 MarFred Klonsky: Erik Prince’s Long History Spying on Americans
157. 8 MarErik Prince, Brother of Betsy DeVos, Master of Domestic Espionage
158. 8 MarJulian Vasquez Heilig: How Does KIPP Really Treat Parents?
159. 8 MarRhode Island Will Close One of Its Oldest Charter Schools
160. 8 MarValerie Strauss: Betsy DeVos’s Pathetic Lies
161. 7 MarPlease Send a Contribution to This Brilliant Woman: Joyce Elliott of Little Rock, Arkansas
162. 7 MarProPublica: Bloomberg, the Sacklers, and the Burdens of Being a Billionaire
163. 7 MarJennifer Berkshire: Trump’s Voucher Plan is Backfiring in Texas
164. 7 MarTom Ultican Loved This Book, and He Thinks You Will Too
165. 6 MarTeresa Hanafin on Trump’s Mercenary Bent
166. 6 MarMichigan: Ethical Problems at Cornerstone Charter School
167. 6 MarEdWeek Surveys Private School Choice Programs and Finds Little Oversight
168. 6 MarPhiladelphia: City’s Second Largest Charter School is in Turmoil
169. 6 MarI Will Be Speaking at NYU–Free and Open to the Public–on March 25
170. 5 MarWhy Didn’t Elizabeth Warren Make It to the End?
171. 5 MarPeter Greene: From High Expectations to Ridiculous Expectations
172. 5 MarNorth Carolina: Educator Jen Mangrum Wins Democratic Primary for State Superintendent
173. 5 MarKeith E. Benson: What Reformers Are Really Doing in Camden and Other Urban Districts
174. 5 MarNancy Bailey: There Can Be No “Science of Reading” When Libraries and Librarians Are Disappearing
175. 4 MarLos Angeles: Pro-Public Education Candidates Lead in School Board Races
176. 4 MarThomas Ultican on The City Fund and Its Determination to Disrupt and Destroy Public Schools and Democracy
177. 4 MarMercedes Schneider Has Written a New Book!
178. 4 MarThe City Fund, Created by Billionaires to Disrupt Public Schools and Abolish Elected Boards
179. 4 MarJohn Thompson: How the Billionaire Boys (and Girls) Club Ravaged America’s Public Schools
180. 4 MarAfter Super Tuesday
181. 3 MarTennessee Parents Sue to Block Voucher Law
182. 3 MarWill Los Angeles School Board Race Be Most Expensive in History?
183. 3 MarSarah Lahm: Will St. Paul, Minnesota, Strike and Join the #Red4Ed Movement on Behalf of Their Students?
184. 3 MarWatch Rep. Mark Pocan Try to Get Answers from DeVos
185. 3 MarThomas Good and Alyson Lavigne: Making Sense of Teacher Evaluation
186. 3 MarI Belong to the Toothbrush Party, an Offshoot of the Democratic Party
187. 3 MarHow Trump is Attacking Biden
188. 2 MarLos Angeles: Teachers v. Billionaires
189. 2 MarJohn Thompson: Public Schools in Oklahoma City and Tulsa Are Sinking Because of Disruption Policies
190. 2 MarA Visit with the Mother of the Resistance, Karen Lewis
191. 2 MarPeter Greene: Whatever Happened to AltSchool?
192. 2 MarTIME: How Michael Bloomberg Undermines Democracy by Big Spending in Local School Board Races
193. 1 MarLos Angeles: Charter Industry Pours More Millions into School Board Election
194. 1 MarTennessee: Parents and Advocates Will Hold Press Briefing Against Vouchers
195. 1 MarThe Intercept: Bloomberg Hires Democratic Party Leaders in Texas And California
196. 1 MarMike Rose Reviews SLAYING GOLIATH

February 2020

1. 29 FebRandi Weingarten Endorses Elizabeth Warren
2. 29 FebTrump Calls Coronavirus a “Hoax” by Democrats
3. 29 FebJan Resseger: Reviewing Bloomberg’s Legacy in Education
4. 29 FebA Podcast from Radio WGN in Chicago
5. 29 FebFile This in the Department of “Some People Never Learn”
6. 29 FebRandi: Providence Takeover Demonizes Teachers, As Rhee and Klein Did
7. 28 FebHechinger Report Clarifies Dispute about Baker-Green Article on Voucher Case
8. 28 FebTeresa Hanafin: Another Whistle Blower
9. 28 FebCalifornia: Vote YES on Prop 13
10. 28 FebIs It Time to Say Farewell to Pearson EdTPA?
11. 28 FebHechinger Report Criticized by Scholars for Bending to Trolls
12. 28 FebHoward University Dean: Charters and “Ed Reform” Are Really About Gentrification
13. 27 FebRep. Rosa DeLauro to Secretary DeVos: No Privatization!
14. 27 FebThe Controversy Over the Orange County School of the Arts
15. 27 FebMercedes Schneider: Kauffman Leadership Academy in Texas Closes with One Week’s Notice
16. 27 FebLos Angeles: Charter School Advocates Continue to Pour Millions into School Board Races
17. 27 FebIndiana: Key Employees of Failed Online Charter Join New Online Charter
18. 26 FebNYCLU Blasts Cuomo’s Facial Recognition Technology
19. 26 FebAct NOW to Stop Federal Funding of Charter Schools
20. 26 FebThomas Ultican: Who Is Behind the Corporate Reform Agenda in Dallas?
21. 26 FebJake Jacobs: How Mike Bloomberg Trashed Public Education in New York
22. 26 FebOhio: Who Is Writing Education Policy? Not Educators.
23. 26 FebLeonie Haimson: Mike Bloomberg’s Disastrous Education Record
24. 25 FebAsk Your Congressional Representative to Act!
25. 25 FebTeresa Hanafin on Trump in India
26. 25 FebMercedes Schneider Shows Off Her Student’s Poem
27. 25 FebEducation Law Center Challenges Charter Expansion in New Jersey
28. 25 FebJan Resseger Recommends This Article as Essential Reading
29. 25 FebMark Green: How Bloomberg Beat Me in 2001
30. 24 FebIn the Public Interest: Why We Must Protect the Public Sector
31. 24 FebNew York Times: The Failure of Michael Bloomberg’s Choice Program in New York City
32. 24 FebFlorida: Investigation Shows That Charters Close Almost as Fast as They Open
33. 24 FebTexas: Poll Shows Respect for Teachers, Support for More Funding, Concern about Testing
34. 23 FebHappy Birthday, W.E.B. DuBois
35. 23 FebBook Tour Reaches Charleston, West Virginia: Meeting the Teachers Who Lit a Fire
36. 23 FebAudrey Watters: Is Our Democracy for Sale to the Highest Spender?
37. 23 FebJennifer Berkshire: Will DeVos’s Attacks on Public Schools Alienate Texas Voters?
38. 23 FebLos Angeles: Charter Allies Pour Millions into School into School Board Races—And Lies
39. 23 FebIndiana: How Much Charter Graft Will Taxpayers Tolerate?
40. 22 FebHappy Birthday, George Washington and Edna St. Vincent Millay
41. 22 FebMississippi: The Shame of a Nation
42. 22 FebDetroit: Why Are School Closures Concentrated in Black and Brown Communities?
43. 22 FebG.F.Brandenburg Reviews SLAYING GOLIATH
44. 22 FebSusan Edelman: Bloomberg’s Test Score Con
45. 21 FebRiverhead, N.Y.: Good Public Schools Starved by Cuomo Tax Cap and Charter
46. 21 FebDiane Joins the Illustrious Klonsky Brothers on “Hitting Left” in Chicago
47. 21 FebAFT supports Three Democratic Candidates
48. 21 FebRoss Douhat: Will Democrat’s Nominate a Smart Plutocrat to Replace a Stupid One?
49. 21 FebTom Ultican Doesn’t Like Amplify One Bit
50. 20 FebBook Tour Reaches Chicago!
51. 20 FebWhen Bloomberg Compared the AARP to the NRA
52. 20 FebAndrea Gabor: Betsy DeVos’s Voucher Obsession Could Boomerang on Republicans
53. 20 FebVirginia: GOP Chair Stalks Democrat Leading Gun Control Effort
54. 20 FebDavid Dayen: An Election of Plutocrat Vs. Plutocrat
55. 20 FebMontana: School Choice Doesn’t Make Sense Here
56. 19 FebWashington Post: The Case Against Sanders
57. 19 FebStudy: Stop-and-Frisk Increased Dropout Rate
58. 19 FebHeather Gautney and Eric Blanc: Bloomberg’s Ed Reform Ideology Would Be a Disaster for Public Schools
59. 19 FebJeff Bryant: The Planned Demolition of Public Education in America
60. 19 FebWisconsin: School Choice is Causing Ruinous Damage to Public Schools
61. 19 FebFlorida: Charter Drain Causing School Closures in Broward County
62. 19 FebThis Story Made Me Cry: A Mother and Child, Separated for 2 1/2 Years
63. 18 FebBloomberg Surges into Second Place, Behind Sanders
64. 18 FebOklahoma: Gulen-Style Online Charter School Obtains Names and Addresses of Students for Recreuitment
65. 18 FebAlex Pareene: Michael Bloomberg’s “Polite” Authoritarianism
66. 18 FebBrookings: The Political Strategy Behind Much of Michael Bloomberg’s Charitable Donations
67. 18 FebNational Education Policy Center: Are Zillow and Real Estate Agents Promoting Segregation?
68. 18 FebBlack Agenda Report: The Looting of Oakland’s Public Schools by Broadies
69. 17 FebCalifornia: Charter Schools Advocates Distribute Vile, Anti-Semitic Poster of School Board Member Scott Schmerelson
70. 17 FebHow Private Equity Looted One of NYC’s Favorite Grocery Stores
71. 17 FebOklahoma: Should the State Superintendent be Elected or Appointed by the Governor?
72. 17 FebNew Hampshire Seeks to Pilot Online Pre-Schooling and Tries Again for Charters
73. 16 FebJan Resseger Credits NPE for Exposing Charter Scams
74. 16 FebOklahoma: EPIC Virtual Charter School Penalized $530,000 for Excessive Administrative Costs
75. 16 FebArizona: Charter School Principal Pleads Guilty to Fraud
76. 16 FebLaura Chapman: Aaron Churchill, Minister of Information for Privatization in Ohio
77. 15 FebJesse Hagopian and I Speak in Seattle
78. 15 FebSteve Hinnefeld: The Stench of Virtual Charter Schools
79. 15 FebDetroit: A Cautionary Tale of a Promising Charter School That Was Doomed to Fail
80. 15 FebIndiana: Two Virtual Charter Schools Steal More Than $68 Million from State
81. 15 FebJersey Jazzman: Sorry, Jersey Charters, You Can’t Have It Both Ways
82. 14 FebTeresa Hanafin on Bill Barr’s Alleged Scolding of Trump (“Mister Man,” As Limbaugh Calls Him)
83. 14 FebCharter Advocates Stunned by DeVos’ Decision to Abandon Federal Charter Program
84. 14 FebGuiliani: The Man and the Myth
85. 14 FebJohn Thompson Reviews SLAYING GOLIATH, Part 2
86. 14 FebJohn Thompson Reviews SLAYING GOLIATH, Part 1
87. 14 FebJeff Bryant: How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way into America’s Public Schools
88. 13 FebBullying in School Follows Trump’s Lead
89. 13 FebLos Angeles: Real People (Not Funded by Billionaires) Launch a News Website
90. 13 FebFred Smith: How Michael Bloomberg and Joel Klein Nudged Test Scores to Get Bragging Rights
91. 13 FebLouisiana: Democratic Governor Edwards Pledges to Increase Education Spending, But Not on Raising Teachers’ Salaries
92. 13 FebJackie Goldberg: Lies the Billionaires Tell
93. 13 FebEducation Week: Common Core Is Still a Hot Item for Vendors
94. 12 FebTeresa Hanafin on Trump’s Politicizing the Justice Department
95. 12 FebBill and Melinda Gates Describe Their Vision for the Future
96. 12 FebWashington Post Finds Bloomberg “Stop and Frisk” Video
97. 12 FebThe Secret to Mississippi’s “Success” in Fourth-Grade Reading, Revealed by Thomas B. Fordham Institute
98. 12 FebPeter Greene: Trump and DeVos Abandon Charter Schools for Hot-Looking Vouchers
99. 12 FebDana Milbank: Bill Barr Supports Hookers for Jesus
100. 11 FebLaura Chapman: A Few More Trump Budget Cuts to Think About
101. 11 FebNew Jersey: Is Chris Christie Still Governor?
102. 11 FebBloomberg Blocks Release of His Comments at Aspen About Minorities and Guns
103. 11 FebTim Slekar and I Discuss My Book on “Busted Pencils”
104. 11 FebSomeDAM Poet: College Ready in Kindergarten
105. 11 FebLaura Chapman: EdReports is NOT Independent!
106. 11 FebTrump’s Budget for Education Eliminates the Scandal-Ridden Federal Charter School Program
107. 11 FebTrump Proposes Deep Cuts to Social Programs, Including Education
108. 10 FebProPublica: The Navy Installed Touch-Screen Technology: 10 Sailors Died
109. 10 FebDispelling the Myths of the College Admissions Tests
110. 10 FebNew York City Parent: How “Reformers” Rig the Game So They Always Win
111. 10 FebNational Education Policy Center: The Myth of Charter School Waitlists
112. 10 FebLast Book Tour Date in California: The Best!!!
113. 9 FebIs There Hope for Florida? See This Flash Mob
114. 9 FebUTLA Shames the “Corporate Special Interests” with Billboards
115. 9 FebMIchael Mulgrew: The “Inconvenient Truth” Behind “Successful” Charter Schools
116. 9 FebTrump Lied About Philly Student in “Failing Government School”
117. 8 FebBook Tour, San Francisco, Part 2
118. 8 FebHappy Birthday, Kate Chopin!
119. 8 FebOrlando Sentinel: Should Publicly-Funded Voucher Schools Be Allowed to Discriminate?
120. 8 FebLaura Chapman: What Is Gates Planning Now?
121. 8 FebSteven Singer: Researchers Disagree about When to Praise Students
122. 8 FebNancy Bailey: Why Do Districts Buy This Reading Program?
123. 8 FebJan Resseger: Ohio Politicians Struggle to Clean Up the Mess They Made
124. 8 FebTonight: I Speak in San Francisco; Sunday: Los Angeles
125. 7 FebDana Milbank: Trump and the Death of Decency
126. 7 FebPolitico: DeVos is Trump’s “Rock Star” for His Base
127. 7 FebYong Zhao: PISA Is Distorting Education Around the Globe
128. 7 FebNational Education Policy Center: The Dangerous Case of Espinoza v. Montana, Now Before the US Supreme Court
129. 7 FebBob Shepherd: How Common Core Dumbed Down the Literature Curriculum
130. 7 FebMy Book Tour: San Francisco, Part 1
131. 6 FebMercedes Schneider to Betsy DeVos: How the Federal Government Failed America’s Public Schools
132. 6 FebAlabama: Woodland Prep Charter School Flounders, Flops
133. 6 FebTom Ultican: Harvard’s School Privatization Machine and the Indianapolis Takeover
134. 6 FebTIME: How “Education Reform” Has Failed America
135. 6 FebBook Tour Update: Seattle
136. 5 FebMitt Romney Explains Why He Voted to Convict Trump
137. 5 FebTeresa Hanafin on Trump’s Rally and Rush Limbaugh’s Record
138. 5 FebWatch Adam Schiff’s Brilliant Closing Speech
139. 5 FebIn the Public Interest: The Best Choice is a Public School
140. 5 FebAndre Agassi Scores $60.5 Million Selling Charter Real Estate in Florida
141. 5 FebWisconsin Gave DeVos and Pence the Cold Shoulder for “School Choice Week”!
142. 4 FebSan Francisco Venue Changed!
143. 4 FebTrump Will Promote Ted Cruz’s Voucher Plan
144. 4 FebEconomic Policy Institute: How Much Would It Cost to Supply High-Quality Early Childhood Education?
145. 4 FebIndianapolis: The Resistance Is Fighting the Well-Funded Disruptors
146. 4 FebSend This Post to Every Ohio Legislator
147. 4 FebValerie Strauss: Founder of IDEA Charter Chain Apologizes for Spendthrift Ways
148. 3 FebUniversity of California Decides to Keep SAT/ACT as Admission Requirements
149. 3 FebDCPS: DO NOT CLOSE THIS SCHOOL!
150. 3 FebTwo Gems from “A Writer’s Almanac”
151. 3 FebFor Your Browsing Pleasure: Who Got Walton Money for Education Disruption in 2018?
152. 3 FebLos Angeles: Defeat the Charter Combine!
153. 3 FebDallas: Charter Operator Sentenced to 7 Years, Then Claims Bonus
154. 3 FebFlorida: 2 Big Banks Abandon Florida’s Voucher Program Due to Anti-LGBT Policies
155. 3 FebBook Tour in D.C. and Onwards
156. 2 FebA Republican Asks: What Does the Republican Party Stand For?
157. 2 FebA Podcast at Books and Books in Miami
158. 2 FebThose Christian Textbooks Adopted in Schools That Receive Taxpayer Funding
159. 2 FebPeter Greene on Ohio’s Mad Love for Vouchers
160. 2 FebWhy Does Ohio Award Bonuses to Failing Charter Schools?
161. 1 FebMaria Popova: How to Raise a Reader
162. 1 FebPaul Lockhart: How to Kill the Love of Learning
163. 1 FebKen Futernick: Teacher Stories
164. 1 FebTIME Magazine: How the “Reform” Movement Has Failed America
165. 1 FebA TEACHER Writes a Great Review of SLAYING GOLIATH in the Washington Post!

January 2020

1. 31 JanStephen Dyer: Ohio’s Voucher Crisis in 4 Charte
2. 31 JanNicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: Who Killed the Knapp Family?
3. 31 JanBill Phillis: Ohio Charter Owners Lose Appeal for Bonuses
4. 31 JanThe Billionaire Republican Governor Who Doesn’t Pay Debts
5. 31 JanCarol Burris: What Michael Bloomberg Really Wants to Do in Schools
6. 31 JanEducation Week: Philanthropists Are Losing Interest in K-12 “Reform” Due to Lack of Results
7. 31 JanDana Milbank: “We Are Lost”
8. 31 JanTeresa Hanafin on Trump’s “Anything Goes” Defense
9. 30 JanDonald Trump is Above the Law
10. 30 JanRobin Lithgow: Shakespeare Had an Education Filled with Joy and Hilarity
11. 30 JanBill Raden of Capital and Main Interviews Me on the Failure of “Reform”
12. 30 JanJohn Thompson: An Open Letter About a New School in Oklahoma City
13. 30 JanBob Shepherd Reviews Annie Murphy Paul’s Review of SLAYING GOLIATH in the “New York Times“
14. 29 JanNewark: Mayor Baraka Defends Superintendent After Attacks by Anonymous Posters
15. 29 JanJan Resseger: Trump’s Economic Policies Are Hurting Our Children
16. 29 JanKentucky: Rightwing Extremists Want to Defund Our Public Schools
17. 29 JanCalifornia: School Districts Sue JUUL for Vaping Crisis
18. 29 JanNancy Flanagan: Who Is Goliath in the Education Debates?
19. 28 JanOhio GOP Grovels at Feet of Fordham and ALEC
20. 28 JanTrump Picks DeVos as Surrogate for His Campaign
21. 28 JanNYC: Good News about the “Community Schools” Project
22. 28 JanArthur Camins: Don’t Believe the Destroyers of Hope
23. 28 JanCarol Burris: The Five Biggest Charter Scandals of 2019
24. 28 JanBook Tour Diary: Early Days
25. 28 JanThe Ex-Labor Leader Who Now Fights Teachers’ Unions
26. 28 JanShawgi Tell: Charter Schools Have No Valid Claim to Public Property
27. 27 JanPennsylvania: Superintendents Form Coalition to Fight Privatization
28. 27 JanCraig Harris: Online Charters Have a Record of Poor Outcomes, Fraud, and Profit
29. 27 JanLittle Rock: Wear Black on 1/28 for the Death of Democratic Control
30. 27 JanBill Phillis: Remember ECOT and $1 Billion of Lost School Revenue?
31. 27 JanMercedes Schneider: SLAYING GOLIATH is “A Book About Us”
32. 26 JanCraig Harris: How Foreign Investors Get Green Cards by Investing Millions in the Charter School Industry
33. 26 JanJustin Parmenter: The Rightwing Assault on Public Schools in North Carolina
34. 26 JanTom Ultican Explains Corporate Education Reform and the Assault on Dallas Public Schools
35. 26 JanFlorida: State Funds Religious Schools Where Bigotry is Just Swell
36. 25 JanMaryland: Court Allows Lawsuit to Proceed for Baltimore City Funding
37. 25 JanValerie Strauss Posts a Portrait of Nashville Leader Amy Frogge, from SLAYING GOLIATH
38. 25 JanAFT Sues Betsy DeVos for Failing to Protect Defrauded Students
39. 25 JanJohn Thompson: How Robert Pondiscio’s Book About the Success Academy Charter Chain Reflects Our Edu-Political Culture
40. 25 JanJan Resseger: Ohio Voucher Plunges Public Districts into Fiscal Crisis
41. 24 JanTeresa Hanafin on the “Trial” with No Evidence Allowed
42. 24 JanDeVos Opposes “Choice,” Compares It to Slavery
43. 24 JanSacklers Sell Home for $38 Million, Leave for Europe
44. 24 JanHappy Birthday, Edith Wharton!
45. 24 JanPeter Greene: Will Pennsylvania Dare to Regulate Its Failing Cyber Charter Industry?
46. 24 JanOklahoma: How to Disrupt and Demoralize a School Distruct
47. 24 JanSteve Hinnefeld: Voucher Schools Should Not Be Allowed to Discriminate. And They Should be Regulated.
48. 24 JanVicki Cobb Reviews SLAYING GOLIATH
49. 24 JanWendy Lecker on Eli Broad: The Wannabee Koch Brother
50. 23 JanIn the Public Interest: Wall Street Wants in on School Construction: Bad Idea!
51. 23 JanTreasury Secretary Mnuchin Says Greta Thunberg Should Study Economics
52. 23 JanBethlehem, Pennsylvania: A Superintendent Talks Candidly About Charter Schools and Race
53. 23 JanGayle Lakin Reviews SLAYING GOLIATH: Enough Is Enough!
54. 23 JanGene Glass and David Berliner Publish a Joint Essay-Review of SLAYING GOLIATH
55. 23 JanMercedes Schneider Compares the Money Behind EdPost and NPE
56. 22 JanRandi Weingarten on Oral Arguments in Espinoza V. Montana Case Before Supreme Court Today
57. 22 JanTeresa Hanafin Summarizes the Impeachment Proceedings So Far
58. 22 JanWashington Post: Senate Is Set to Remove All Limits on Presidential Power
59. 22 JanNancy Bailey Reviews SLAYING GOLIATH!
60. 22 JanOhio: Legislator Says State Has “Duty” to Fund Religious Schools
61. 22 JanSteven Singer: The Disrupters Are Failing, The People Are Fighting Back!
62. 22 JanA Dead Poet Sends a Message to Republican Senators
63. 21 JanTeresa Hanafin: McConnell’s “See No Evil” Impeachment Rules
64. 21 JanArthur Camins’ Beautiful Review of SLAYING GOLIATH: “A Chronicle of Hope”
65. 21 JanCalifornia: Defunct For-Profit “College” Sues Former Students for Repayment of Debt
66. 21 JanValerie Strauss: A Q & A with Me about SLAYING GOLIATH
67. 21 JanToday is Publication Day for SLAYING GOLIATH!
68. 21 JanThe Future of Public Education Hinges on This Supreme Court Case
69. 20 JanWornie Reed: The Martin Luther King They Love
70. 20 JanLaurence H. Tribe: Trump’s Lawyers Should Not Defend Him with Bogus Arguments
71. 20 JanDr. King Describes How to Achieve Greatness
72. 20 JanG.F. Brandenburg: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Not Always Popular
73. 20 JanSteven Singer: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the True Purpose of Education
74. 20 JanAlan Singer on the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
75. 19 JanTrump Uses “Religious Freedom” to Stir Up His Angry Base
76. 19 JanPeter Greene: The Meteoric Rise and Disappearance of Michelle Rhee
77. 19 JanEdward Johnson: The Right Way to Apply for the Position as Superintendent of Schools in Atlanta
78. 19 JanOhio: How to “Fix” the State’s Disastrous Voucher Program
79. 19 JanGary Rubinstein on the Life and Death of the “Terrible Education Reform Movement”
80. 18 JanFlorida: State Auditors Say $5.5 Million Disappeared at Two Charter Schools
81. 18 JanSamuel Abrams: Whatever Happened to the Edison Project?
82. 18 JanTrump’s War Against Science and the Triumph of Ignorance
83. 18 JanNorth Carolina: The News From Public Schools First
84. 18 JanPeter Greene: Why the Education Disruption Machine Is Failing
85. 17 JanToday is the Anniversary of the Worst Constitutional Amendment
86. 17 JanWhat Happened When a 52-Year-Old Navy Seal Was Accepted as a Freshman at Yale?
87. 17 JanJohn Merrow: Insect-Based Teacher Training, Parts 1 & 2
88. 17 JanProPublica Exposes The Big Business of Lobbying
89. 17 JanTwo Master Bloggers–Peter Greene and Steven Singer–Deconstruct the “National Parents Union”
90. 16 JanJennifer Hall Lee: In Pasadena, the Fund-Raising for Schools Reflects the Income Inequality in Society
91. 16 JanSign Up Now for NPE Action Conference in Philly!
92. 16 JanFlorida: Are Violent Kids Protected by Law?
93. 16 JanGary Rubinstein: The Collapse of the Tennessee “Achievement School District”
94. 15 JanTeresa Hanafin: New Evidence on the Ukrainian Affair
95. 15 JanMaurice Cunningham: Why the Waltons Fund the “National Parents Union”
96. 15 JanThe “Patriotic Millionaires” Who Want to Pay Higher Taxes
97. 15 JanTom Ultican: The Takeover of Providence Public Schools
98. 14 JanCalifornia: County Board of Education Denies Renewal of Troubled Charter School
99. 14 JanGary Rubinstein: More Reform-Funded Nonsense About KIPP Graduation Rates
100. 14 JanSteve Hinnefeld: Indiana’s School Rating System Is Worthless
101. 14 JanArizona: Goldwater Institute Sues to Invalidate Regulation of Voucher Money
102. 14 JanJersey Jazzman: The Hoax of “Choice”
103. 14 JanNew York: Will Democrats in State Senate Sell Out to Hedge Fund Billionaires?
104. 13 JanSign Up Now for the Network for Public Education Action Conference in Philadelphia, March 28-29!
105. 13 JanSanders Speaks Out for Public Schools and Their Teachers in Florida
106. 13 JanHooray! The Astrology Book Club Recommends SLAYING GOLIATH!
107. 13 JanArthur Goldstein: Albany Hands Down the New 10 Commandments to English Teachers
108. 13 JanLarry Lee: The Colossal Charter Mess in Alabama
109. 13 JanDomingo Morel: The State Takeover of Houston Schools Is about Race and Power, Not School Improvement
110. 13 JanDeVos Ignores Judge’s Order: Will She Be Punished?
111. 12 JanRegister Now for NPE Action Conference!
112. 12 JanMy Book Tour Dates for SLAYING GOLIATH
113. 12 JanPhiladelphia: Principal Says, “My School Needs Support, Not Competition”
114. 12 JanNew Hampshire Democrats Again Reject $46 Million for New Charters
115. 12 JanNew York: State Drops “Achieve” as Testing Consultant
116. 11 JanMichael Kohlhaas: Charter Leader Embarrassed to Admit That He Took Money from the Waltons and Broad (“Great Public Schools Now”)
117. 11 JanWaltons and Broad Fund a “Grassroots Parents’” Group
118. 11 JanCharter Chains Try to Lift College Graduation Rates By Sending Dropouts to Online “College”
119. 11 JanBob Shepherd Reviews “SLAYING GOLIATH”
120. 11 JanWisconsin: Taxpayers Angry About Supporting Two School Systems
121. 10 JanWashington Post Fact-Checks Trump’s 2-Hour Rally in Michigan and Reports that 67% of His Claims Were Untrue
122. 10 JanMassachusetts: A Parent Thanks a State Official Who Exposed Dark Money
123. 10 JanOhio: Should States Subsidize Private and Religious Education by Subtracting Money from Public Schools?
124. 10 JanNorth Carolina: I Endorse Jen Mangrum for State Superintendent of Schools
125. 10 JanSue Legg: The Dark $ide of $chool Choice in Florida
126. 10 JanThe Two Most Horrifying Stories about Standardized Testing in the Past Decade
127. 9 JanTeresa Hanafin: Trump Reduces More Environmental Regulations, While Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Hides Trump’s Travel Expenses
128. 9 JanNewark: Superintendent Wants to Close Four Charters and Limit New Ones
129. 9 JanI Endorse Andy Saultz for State Legislature in Oregon
130. 9 JanJan Resseger: The Empowering and Hopeful Message of “SLAYING GOLIATH”
131. 9 JanDaniel Koretz: American Students Are Not Getting Smarter, and Test-Based “Reforms” Are to Blame
132. 9 JanTexas: State Judge Temporarily Blocks State Takeover of Houston Schools
133. 9 JanLouisiana: John White Submits His Resignation
134. 8 JanBernie Sanders Calls for an End to Annual Standardized Testing
135. 8 JanNCLB Was Signed into Law By President George W.Bush on This Day in 2002
136. 8 JanNorth Carolina: State Officials Are Embarrassed by Facts about their Charter Sector
137. 8 JanA Personal Message to Bill & Melinda Gates
138. 8 JanSteven Singer: Economists Ate My School
139. 8 JanGary Rubinstein: That Misleading KIPP Research about College Completion
140. 7 JanToday is Zora Neale Hurston’s Birthday
141. 7 JanMike Bloomberg Announces Centerpiece of His Education Agenda: Charter Schools Galore!
142. 7 JanCalifornia: Lawmaker Proposes Regulations for “Home School” Charter Industry
143. 7 JanOpting Out: The Story of the Parents’ Grassroots Movement to Achieve Whole-Child Public Schools
144. 7 JanNorth Carolina: A Cash Cow for Investors, a Headache for Taxpayers
145. 7 JanAudrey Watters: Is There a Good Side to Ed Tech?
146. 7 JanTrump Has a Busy Week Ahead, According to Politico
147. 6 JanPeter Greene: The Indispensable Glossary to Corporate School Reform
148. 6 JanCharlotte, N.C.: Voucher School Abruptly Closes Mid-Year
149. 6 JanStuart Egan: A Decade of Disastrous Policies in North Carolina
150. 6 JanNancy Bailey: How Corporate Reform Is Wrecking Suburban Schools Too
151. 6 JanBetsy DeVos Defends Her Indifference towards Defrauded Students
152. 5 JanJeff Bryant: Has the Democratic Party Really Reversed Course on the Failed Agenda of Charters and Testing?
153. 5 JanLos Angeles: Charters Are Proliferating Where They Aren’t Needed
154. 5 JanIndiana: State Graduation Rate is 87%, but for Charters, It is 40%
155. 5 JanFormer Ohio Superintendent: Lies, Lies, Lies! Enough!
156. 5 JanProvidence: First, Fire All the Teachers!
157. 4 JanCarol Burris: Joe Roy, a Hero of Public Education
158. 4 JanJan Resseger: Eli Broad and the $100 Million He Paid to Re-Brand His Faux-Leadership Center
159. 4 JanA Teacher and a Parent: Why Charter Reform Is Needed
160. 4 JanJohn Thompson: Why Is Tulsa in Crisis?
161. 4 JanAudrey Watters: Don’t Believe the Techno-Pundits and Don’t Put a Ring Camera in Your Home
162. 3 JanThese Are the Court Cases That Could Reshape K-12 Education in 2020
163. 3 JanHappy Birthday, Lucretia Mott!
164. 3 JanAngie Sullivan Tells Every Nevada Legislator to Read SLAYING GOLIATH
165. 3 JanThe Most Important School Case Before the U.S. Supreme Court This Session
166. 3 JanCarol Burris Cites DeVos to Prove Failure of Federal Charter School Program
167. 3 JanJennifer Berkshire: The Democratic Candidates and Their School Choice Problem
168. 2 JanHarold Meyerson: Bloomberg as “the Manchurian Candidate”
169. 2 JanJohn Merrow Cancels His Congratulations to You
170. 2 JanHouston: Community Members and Students Speak Out Against State Takeover of HISD
171. 2 JanHouston: The Betrayal of the Public Schools As State Attacks Democracy
172. 2 JanA Book You Should Own That Explains Education Today
173. 2 JanPolitico on Trump’s Busy Day
174. 2 JanG.F. Brandenburg: U.S. Teachers Work Longer Hours Than Their Peers in Most Every Other Country
175. 2 JanLos Angeles: Tragic Death of Integration Advocate
176. 2 JanMy New Year’s Day Adventure
177. 1 JanJustice John Roberts Defends the Independence of the Federal Judiciary
178. 1 JanTHE FIRST REVIEW OF “SLAYING GOLIATH!”
179. 1 JanHere Are My New Year’s Resolutions: What Are Yours?
180. 1 JanHappy New Year!