Looking back, I had the balance wrong; I put too much emphasis on the negative aspects, and they were too high in my story… I made a minor change in the story to try to address that [imbalance], but it did not go far...
Read MoreKudos to Rachel M. Cohen [@rmc031] for her American Prospect piece about charter school unionization (When Charters Go Union), which is a timely update on a small but important issue no matter which side of the reform/critic...
Read MoreOver at The New Republic, researchers Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine rip the media a new one over its coverage of their Sesame Street study. It’s a useful example of a tendency in journalism to render differences...
Read MoreToday’s news includes teachers alleging major problems at K12 virtual schools, and also Texas’ decriminalization of truancy, 48 New York schools that give projects instead of using standardized tests, and a big piece...
Read MoreI’ve written several times in the past about how both sides of the current education civil war — but perhaps reformers in particular — probably need to get better and faster at advocacy necessities such as...
Read MoreToday’s education news includes proposed changes to PA’s deeply inequitable school funding formula, pushback from civil rights groups over the proposed rewrite of NCLB, and an update from the NEA on its candidate...
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