Ever wonder why a lion’s share of positive (non-peer reviewed) findings about school choice come from certain places? We take on that question in our
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Breaking News: TFA kicked out of Houston
I just learned that the Houston Independent School District board deadlocked and TFA is out in Houston. More info as details become available. Houston ISD
Is Teach For America’s training problematic?
WGBH reports that, TFA training draws in part on Doug Lemov’s Teach Like a Champion method, featured in the recent bookBuilding a Better Teacher. Teach
Truth For America: Why was Legislator and TFA alum punished?
Why did this happen to @KevinKileyCA? A @TeachForAmerica alum who sits on the California Assembly Education committee? Listen to the latest episode of Truth For America
UC Berkeley Chancellor says Kopp Monologue is Free Speech
Wendy Kopp, who infamously created Teach For America to temporarily place teachers in classrooms in her Princeton undergraduate thesis, has been invited to give the
High Stakes Testing and Accountability
Advocates Continue Push to Lessen Importance of Standardized Tests in Texas
A new piece posted yesterday on the NPR website entitled Advocates Continue Push to Lessen Importance of Standardized Tests in Texas. Morgan Kilgo reports, The
How and why to avoid Florida’s flaws
It’s not too late to improve state ESSA plans. Approved state ESSA plans can be amended at any time. That’s both good news and bad news.
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Parent Horror Stories from BASIS: Corporate Charter Hurting Children?
Today I am blogging about two parent horror stories from BASIS. Let me just warn you, after hearing parents talk
Children Psychologically Imprisoned?: Whistleblower Reveals High-Stakes Testing Preparation
I’ll admit it. When A Terrifying Report about Child Abuse in Texas Schools–and in Your State Too first ran about a month
Breaking News: @NAACP calls for national moratorium on charters
I don’t believe that this has been reported anywhere else. Last week at the NAACP National Convention in Cincinnati, the delegates voted
Weekend Fun: Happy Birthday Diane Ravitch!
I spent the last few days at an advisory board meeting for the Network for Public Education in New York
Tell-All From A TFA and KIPP Teacher: Unprepared, Isolation, Shame, and Burnout
A few years ago a UT-Austin undergraduate student sat in my office and told me that she was joining Teach
