Ballou teacher Monica Brokenborough In November 2017 an investigative reporter at the NPR affiliate WAMU, Kate McGee, started listening to t...
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Monday, January 22, 2018
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Education Reform Hasn't Hit A Wall; It Is The Wall
Award winning former NY principal, Carol Burris analyzes the whopping 14 point nationwide drop in SAT scores for 2015 in this Washington Pos...
Friday, May 8, 2015
Are Charter Schools the Answer?
Furman University in South Carolina professor Paul Thomas nicely summed up the unimpressive track record of over a decade of promoting ...
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Love of Reading and Writing Beats A "Reform" Focus
Valarie Strauss posted an eloquent post by Nancie Atwell, the renowned founder of the Center for Teaching and Learning and an award-winning ...
Monday, August 18, 2014
Another Charter Scandal -- The Lack of Accountability Is Like the Wild West
Emma Brown revealed in the Washington Post in December that Jeremy Williams, the former DC Public Charter School Board CFO, helped Options P...
Stepping Back to Consider What's Wrong With Existing Reform Emphasis
The NY Times published an interesting op-ed yesterday by University of California Professor David Kirp. This is just one of many critiques t...
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Charters Re-segregate Public Schools -- New Study Tells How
GW professor Iris Rotberg penned an article in the Kappan Magazine a version of which was re-printed in Valerie Strauss' column today de...