Chicagoans Protest Charters. H/T Progress Illinois
Is Obama’s latest message on standardized testing worth celebrating?
Filmmaker Bill Baykan documents the Dyett hunger strike in Chicago.
Anthony Cody on the Gates Foundation. H/T Brainwaves
Karen Royal (3:00 in) on the rights of New Orleans parents to send their children to neighborhood public schools, ten years after Hurricane Katrina.
Last spring, when my son was denied admittance to the computer lab during high stakes testing time (we had opted him out), I raised a stink, writing an editorial in our local paper protesting not only that he was denied a resource he needed to complete a report he was writing, but also the way he was denied: a …
Sometimes I wonder if I am doing my son a disservice by opting him out of tests he will eventually have to take to get into college. But now with more and more colleges opting out maybe it won’t matter.
As Joe Biden considers a presidential run, should teachers consider supporting him? Here he is on educational issues, at the University of New Hampshire, last February. H/T Andrew Gamble
As discussed here at LiD, candidate Bernie Sanders has not said too much about his thoughts on K-12. July 15, as the Senate worked on the Every Child Achieves Act, legislation that would change the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law by giving increased authority to states and local school districts, Sanders refers …
Jesus Garcia appears at a rally opposing charters on Chicago’s Southwest Side.