By Jameson Brewer and Sarah Matsui. What are counter-narratives? And why are they significant in the conversation? Counter-narratives are essentially “little stories” of individuals and groups of people whose knowledge and histories have been excluded from the telling of official narratives (Giroux, …
By Anthony Cody. There is growing evidence that the corporate-sponsored education reform project is on its last legs. The crazy patchwork of half-assed solutions on offer for the past decade have one by one failed to deliver, and one by one they are falling. Can the edifice survive once its pillars of support have …
By Anthony Cody. New York principal Carol Burris’ latest post is infuriating. In it, she describes the inaccurate data that the New York state Department of Education has published which fails to show the true number of students attending college. The Department of Ed published the faulty data by district …
By Anthony Cody. Public education seems to be caught in a high velocity public relations spin cycle, and one of the cornerstones of democracy is subjected to daily assaults by professionals at the game. But while organizations like TFA have the money to buy PR experts, they are losing ground in the public arena to …
