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How The Right Wing Schools Education Reformists

Now that No Child Left Behind has become the butt of popular ridicule, and the prospect of forging a new consensus on education policy in DC seems doubtful, you would think that everyone currently clamoring for education "reform" would step back, take a deep breath,...

Whats Behind the War on Class Size

To all those out there who are clamoring for "market-based" approaches to education reform, please tell me this: What kind of a business slashes inventory in the face of increasing demand? Because that is exactly what's going on with public education in America today....

Obama Gets It Right On Education - Really

Last week, President Obama gave us a clear perspective of what's wrong with current education policies and a positive vision for where they should be going. In a townhall meeting, he lamented that current education policies have "piled on a lot of standardized tests...

On School Reform Michelle Rhee and Democracy

On Tuesday Sam Seder and I had a brief discussion during his daily web broadcast The Majority Report that touched on some points I made in my post here last week The Empty Rhetoric of School "Reform" (with broken links fixed – my apologies). We ventured into other...

The Empty Rhetoric of School Reform

It’s getting really hard to look at the distorted rhetoric of today’s debate about public schools and NOT see it in the same whorish light as other political discussions of the day. Just as we’re being stoked with down-is-up claims that tax cuts balance government...

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