Month: May 2018

• Report Comparing Charter Schools versus Public Schools is Fatally Flawed

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  May 10, 2018

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  African Americans, Charter Schools

  I usually ignore Patrick Wolf and the other nonsense and commentary produced by the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, but I couldn’t this time. Here is the press release from my new analysis of their report on charter school versus public school “productivity.” From the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) Press…

  

• Facebook is Censoring Your Favorite Bloggers

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  May 7, 2018

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  Wisdom

  Originally posted on gadflyonthewallblog: Have you seen me? ? Probably not. ? In fact, you’re probably not even seeing this right now. ? Though you may have read and enjoyed my articles in the past, though you may still want to have the opportunity to see and enjoy my posts in the future, you probably…

  

• V is for VICTORY, not Vouchers

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  May 4, 2018

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  Vouchers

  School vouchers are like the zombies of education policy— they keep coming back from the dead to create a public education apocalypse. Vouchers returned in the proposed federal legislation HR 5199 and S. 2517. The resurrections demonstrate that Donald Trump, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and other neoliberals remain committed to privately managed school choice funded by…