By Sara Lahm. Recently, a friend pointed me to an opinion piece she thought I’d like, because, she said, it reminded her of the article I recently wrote for the Nation’s Investigative Fund, about all of the outside money being spent on this year’s Minneapolis school board race. The opinion piece is by one of …
By John Thompson. Anthony Cody’s The Educator and the Oligarch recalls his 2012 debate with representatives of the Gates Foundation. He summarized the work of education scholar Linda Darling-Hammond, mathematician John Ewing, and the American Statistical Association when explaining why value-added models …
By Anthony Cody. When I visited the Gates Foundation a few years ago, one phrase stuck with me. “You can only manage what you can measure,” I was told. This is the underlying framework of our 21st century accountability paradigm. On the 2008 presidential primary campaign trail, candidates Obama and …
I met teacher and filmmaker Laurie Gabriel while live streaming the Public Education Nation event earlier this month. We needed a cameraperson and she jumped right in to help. We also featured a trailer for her new film “Hear Our Teachers” before the event. I wanted to know how a filmmaker takes on corporate …
