Eight Flaws of the Vergara Lawsuit
The Vergara v. California lawsuit reflects some fundamental misunderstandings about schools and teaching....
Education Reform
Deeply Flawed Vergara Verdict is a Setback for Teachers – and Students
Students do matter, but the money and power organized behind the Vergara case will not really help students. We're watching a political battle played out in the courts because the lawsuit's benefactor...
The Meaning of ‘We Shall Overcome’
Are we ready for some honest educational dialogue about race and class, or are we just singing a song from history?...
Co-opting MLK doesn’t get much worse than this
What would Martin Luther King, Jr. say? Everyone has an opinion and quotes, but we can't all be right....
‘Mission High’ Shows Depth, Complexity of School
Anyone who works in schools or cares about schools will appreciate the years of research that went into Kristina Rizga's outstanding book about the educators and students who make Mission High School ...
BREAKING: Education Department Shifts Course on Testing
The Education Department put out a press release today signaling a noteworthy shift in their education policies pertaining to standardized testing; it looks like the kind of change many of us have bee...
Read (but don’t be) VAMboozled
If you're interested in value-added measures used in teacher evaluation, you need to read VAMboozled....
‘The Mirage’ and Teacher Learning
TNTP's report, "The Mirage," suggests that we're currently wasting a lot of money in failed attempts to help teachers who mostly lack self-awareness, vision, ambition, and the capacity for improvement...
Equity and Teacher Hiring
Plenty of people are ready to tell schools and teachers what to do to solve problems in education, but pretty short on ideas for closing the equity and opportunity gaps that stack the odds against cer...
Ed. Dept. concedes ratings are problematic for colleges – what about K-12?
What remains to be seen is whether or not the Education Department will apply similar logic to any other decisions in their limited remaining time, or if this was an isolated incidence of common sense...