NYC Public School Parents

Paul Wellstone on NCLB, one of only ten Senators who voted against the law.  On the 10th anniversary of this great hero's death . Am...

On Wednesday, September 15, I was invited to New York Law School to debate Shael Suransky, NYC's Deputy Chancellor for Accountabil...

Today’s article in the NY Times on Obama’s plan to revamp NCLB might fool the uninitiated that the administration’s proposals will help solv...

Check out this segment from "Democracy Now" for a great, extended interview of Diane Ravitch, education scholar and former Asst. S...

Several weeks ago, I wrote about the twenty-year history of the England’s standardized national exam system, called Sats, and how its pre...

PowerPoint Presentation PowerPoint Presentation Check out Diane Ravitch’s succinct advice to Arne Duncan , the soon-to-be Secretary of Edu...

I know you've all been dying to know. Gordon, a former attorney and would-be educational reformer, spent a few months working at Tweed ...

Yesterday, President Bush stood in front of a group of New York City elementary school students with the Mayor by his side. He urged the ...

Math scores are up in New York City on state tests in grades three through eight. They are up in every grade. That’s terrific news for kids ...

The President's plane landed in Central Park yesterday, so that George Bush could visit a charter school, the Harlem Village Academy. Th...