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This week, Joel Klein is visiting Australia to promote his educational policies and perspective. To alert Aussies to the disinformation c...

From slam poet and former NYC teacher, Taylor Mali . Check it out!

From Confirmed: testing = teaching , the blog of a 2nd grade reading teacher: Meanwhile, ... poor Azul has taken to hanging around the des...

Check out the Villager , about Assemblymember Deborah Glick’s forum on Mayoral control at the Great Hall in Cooper Union last week. I was ...

Check out this piece in the Huffington Post by Benjamin Barber, who criticizes the so-called pundits like Jacob Weisberg of Slate , who are...

In the DOE press release yesterday about the teacher performance pay program that will cost $20 million of taxpayer money this year, amidst...

Randi Weingarten’s recent speech, where she was introduced by Mike Bloomberg, includes a strong endorsement for teacher merit pay based on h...

On Friday, there will be a public discussion/forum on Mayoral control elsewhere in the nation; sponsored by the Parent Commission on School ...

See the latest column by LA public school parent activist, Sandra Tsing Lo, on the NY Times blog , called Public School Parents, Unite! ...

In today’s Rochester Democrat and Chronicle , Jean-Claude Brizard, formerly top administrator at Tweed and now the Superintendent of Rochest...

Monday's Panel for Educational Policy meeting included a briefing on the budget cuts. Click here for the full Powerpoint. At Mayor M...

November 19, 2008 (GBN News): NY City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein has hired Alaska Governor and former Republican Vice Presidential candi...

At Monday's Panel for Educational Policy meeting, Chancellor Joel Klein made a last minute agenda change to make room for Chief Accounta...

What do we now have after two years of the DOE handing out reports cards on our schools? Here are a few not-so-random questions and thoughts...

A recent Daily News editorial regurgitated its usual “retain Mayoral control” mantra (under the unintentionally ironic moniker, Save Our Sc...

There have been many eloquent emails sent and petitions signed in the past few days, warning Barack Obama against hiring Joel Klein as Secre...

Esther Amah, of WBAI's Wake-Up Call , interviews Norm Scott of Education Notes and Leonie Haimson of Class Size Matters on November 13...

Now that Bill Gates has offered to write new “national standards” and a national exam to go along with them , and many of our most influent...