Teach For America exported and going Global!
Did you know that Teach For America is being exported worldwide? Truth For America is a podcast about Teach For America (TFA) that provides voice to educators, parents, [...]
International Comparative
When you think of China, what comes to mind?
When you think of China, what comes to mind? Is it the Great Wall? Thousands of years of high-stakes testing? Tofu? Pollution? I experienced all of these recently when had an [...]
Police murdering teachers this week
The international media is reporting (mainstream US news media??) Mexican police attacked teachers striking against neoliberal education reforms in the southern state [...]
Education Health ALERT!: United Nations warns GERMs spreading worldwide #NN15
The world is experiencing the spread of privatizing GERMs (Global Education Reform Movements). School “reformers” are pressing a variety of “school choice” and [...]
Will Market-Based Education Produce More or Less Student Uprising?
In the post, Exclusive: Students Tear Gassed By Police While Protesting School Inequality I asked Are you ready for more protests? School “reformers” have [...]
Film Review: Defies Measurement weaves together problematic purposes of ed reform
In Defies Measurement, Shannon Puckett expertly weaves together the problematic purposes of testing, Common Core, corporate reform, No Child Left Behind, Teach For America, [...]
Photo Essay: Chinese School is Lesson for US Policymakers
The Chinese are serious about vocational (aka career and technical education). The United States is not. Vocational education in the United States has a long history of being [...]
At Shanker: Are Americans (and Texans) as Stupid as the Media Tells Us We Are?
The media onslaught letting Americans know that they are dunces has gone on for decades. How stupid are we? You might be surprised that the news about our public education [...]
Billionaires co-opt minority groups into campaign for education reform
Under the mantra of civil rights, billionaires such as Eli Broad, Bill Gates and the Koch Brothers and the powerful corporate-funded lobby group the American Legislative [...]
Who’s Smarter Than Texans?: Math and Science Test Scores Compared to the World and Nation
Are U.S. students really as horrible in math and science as the media would have us to believe? How do “reform” oriented states like Texas, Florida and Louisiana stack up [...]
