Saving Banks and Failing Schools
The editors of Rethinking Schools expose an economy that prioritizes the needs of the wealthy over those of children.
School Funding
How School Lunch Debt Creates Shame and Inequality — and Our Fight to Abolish It
Debt activists examine the shame, stigma, and effects of student lunch debt — and their successful organizing for universal free meals.
Teachers Living and Resisting Indebted Life
Wozniak shares stories of educators grappling with student loans and a growing movement toward resistance and debt cancellation.
School Debt: The Great Unequalizer
As Schirmer writes: “School districts with the fewest resources pay the most to borrow.” Given the underfunding of schools, debt amplifies existing inequalities.
50 Years Older and Deeper in Debt
Karp describes the origins of the unjust U.S. patchwork system of funding schools and envisions funding justice.
From the Race to the Top to the Plunge to the Bottom
Horror movie sequels are notoriously bad. This one may be the worst. In 2009, federal intervention during the last financial crisis gave rise to the Obama administration’s signature education initiative: […]
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Wisconsin Uprising — Justice Is in the Air
Who’s Behind the Money?
While names like Rockefeller, Ford, Annenberg, and Carnegie traditionally have dominated foundation-funded education reform, in recent years a new group of foundations has emerged — Gates, Walton, and Broad, to […]
Books: It’s Still the Economy, Stupid…
Books:
It’s Still the Economy, Stupid…
Made in Seattle
Made in Seattle
Challenging Corporate Ed Reform
The failures of the corporate education “reform” movement leave it vulnerable to genuine grassroots school transformation.
Who’s Bashing Teachers and Public Schools and What Can We Do About It?
To build an effective movement against the top-down strategies that are ripping public education apart, we need to take a closer look at who wants reform and why.
Beyond NCLB
A new era requires new thinking
Teaching in Dystopia
The problem is this: Testing is killing education. Not only is it narrowing the curriculum generally
Reading First, Libraries Last
In these bleak NCLB days of regimented
Prophet Motives
Any discussion of charter schools must ask not only whether charters promote a worthwhile vision of public education
Fault Lines in Merit Pay
Far from addressing the systemic
NCLB Stalled, but Still Armed and Dangerous
While the bipartisan consensus that passed NCLB in 2001 has splintered, the old, unimproved version of the law is not going away anytime soon.
Wish You Were Here
A University of Nebraska professor takes a satirical look at Education Week’s Quality Counts report, where the Cornhusker state ranked at the bottom.
Pressuring the Gap
Ohio attempts to close achievement gap by focusing on 9th-grade males
‘Hurricane Vicki’
Portland’s former superintendent gets a big stage with Gates Foundation assignment.
Raising Money, Raising Consciousness
A writer and mother sifts through the fund-raising business and discovers that products that educate students and consumers and reward workers.
‘Narrow and Unlovely’
Before the floodwaters receded in New Orleans, conservative education reformers rushed in selling a market-based future.
Can NCLB Be Left Behind?
Reauthorization could bring ‘damage control’ or more damage.
Elephants in the Room
When mainstream media report on urban schools, the real story is often what goes unsaid.