By Bill Cole. As another school year has started, one thing is certain, a vocal coalition of education reformers, market-based advocates and policymakers will continue extolling the virtues of school choice initiatives, such as private school vouchers and charter schools. These groups enthusiastically note that …
By John Thompson. The New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof, in “Bill and Melinda Gates’s Pillow Talk,” writes: “It has been 15 years since Bill and Melinda Gates created what is now the largest foundation in the world. This milestone seemed the right moment to ask them what they have …
By Denny Taylor. The truth is that the fill-in-the-bubble, ranking and sorting, high stakes testing, political reform of public education is a total system failure “You have to be very cautious and careful about accepting claims by power systems,” Chomsky said to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, July 1, 2015. …
By John Thompson. When lost in the woods, the first rule is “hug a tree.” In other words, slow down, confront your fears, regain your calm and think prudently about getting back on track. When trapped in the urban crises of today, we should first hug each other, converse with each other, and then hug the …
