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The Media Rethinks Teachers’ Unions and Charter Schools
If you’ve been thinking that the mainstream media has been more critical of teachers’ unions of late, Terry Cowgill at Big Journalism confirms your observations and names names. For instance: A story...
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Democracy and Public Education
Check out the latest video of New Jersey’s governor Christie on the state’s teachers’ union. His argument isn’t with teachers, it’s with the teachers’ union. The fight, according to Christie, is this:...
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Teachers on the Big Screen
The Foundry asks: Is Hollywood Turning on Teachers Unions? How did we get to the point where The Foundry is even asking the question? It seems to me that the unions are facing opposition on two...
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More on “The Lottery”
We’ve mentioned Madeleine Sackler’s documentary here before. Read the great interview Bari Weiss did with Sackler at the Wall Street Journal. One nugget among many: “We drove by that protest,” Ms....
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Formula for a Successful School: Subsidiarity, Free Enterprise and...
Kevin Carey’s post at The Quick and the Ed clarifies what’s going on in education reform right now and how’s it’s changed since the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2001. We’re in what Carey...
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Telling the Truth
In an odd case in Texas, teachers won the right to give students the grades that they earned, no matter how low a failing grade might be. According to the Houston Chronicle, Texas law requires that...
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The NEA and the Politics of Education
The National Education Association (NEA) convention (July 2-11) is underway in New Orleans. There’s plenty of goings-on to interest political junkies- even those who don’t care all that much about...
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Can This Marriage Be Saved?
The Hill’s Walter Alarkon reports today on the fight within the Democrat Party on education funding. The Obama administration’s Department of Education– in the person of Secretary Arne Duncan–is...
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IMPACT on DC Schools
“Every child in a District of Columbia public school has a right to a highly effective teacher — in every classroom, of every school, of every neighborhood, of every ward, in this City. That is our...
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Hell Freezes Over
Mark Tapscott from the Washington Examiner explains why it’s happened. The Rev. Al Sharpton has come out against teachers’ unions and in favor of charter schools. “I’m not anti-charter schools. I’m...
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