There aren’t a ton of instances in which education reporters find themselves in potentially life or death situations, but in a long career they can happen. Way back in Spring 2008, LA Times reporter Howard Blume fought to...
Read MoreJust when I want to ding the TODAY show for running an alarming (alarmist?) segment about school buses and seat belts, a school bus goes off the road in Houston.
Read MoreFerguson Commission: Schools Must Prioritize Whole-Child Issues, Equity District Dossier: A 198-page report by the Ferguson Commission recommends a focus on whole-child issues like hunger and school discipline and an overhaul in...
Read MoreDale Russakoff’s book about Newark continues to be the subject of a lot of admiring attention – and sales. (It’s apparently the top education book on Amazon right now.) On Twitter, BuzzFeed’s Molly...
Read MoreI don’t have anything in particular against parents who start charter schools or parent activists who help organize others to fix struggling district schools, but the stories I read about them this weekend both seemed...
Read MoreIn case you missed it in last week’s deluge of back to school stories, NPR did a segment about the need for more welders that included the claim that the lack of trained welders was due to NCLB and its focus on math and...
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