Flashback: Candidate Barack Obama on Segregated Schools
Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven’t fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain...
View ArticleBack and Forth with Senator Bill Ferguson on DFER and Parent Revolution
To Senator Bill Ferguson: Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my post on the parent trigger law, Parent Revolution and Democrats for Education Reform. You’d written to me that your...
View ArticleBreaking the Barriers: Talking About Race in Baltimore
Baltimore in Black and White from Urbanite. Thanks to Michael Corbin for the tip. A number of heavy hitters in education reform name closing the achievement gap as a driving mission. They’re mostly...
View ArticleAnother Blow to the Teacher-Quality-Trumps-Poverty Meme
Two weeks ago, The American Prospect published an article that used Joel Klein’s life story as a counter-argument to his proposition that teacher quality is the most important determinant of...
View ArticleWealth Inequality in America [Video]
This is why every American who makes a middle class living should care about millionaires’ and billionaires’ dabbling in education reform. Why sequestration is hogwash. Why anyone who tells you there...
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