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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...

Several years ago, the Boston Globe published a story about Harvard’s “quiet secret” – rampant grade inflation. At that time, over 50% of a...

Over at Gotham Schools, Elizabeth tells us how all the bigwigs in education policy went out to Seattle to hear the latest thoughts of Bill G...

November 11, 2008 (GBN News): There has been a great deal of speculation over the possibility that President-elect Barack Obama may be con...

Now that the New York Times blog has excerpted a few lines (and none of the substantive critique) from my letter about why President-elect ...

Th e decision from the NY State Supreme Court that there should have been a full environmental review before the School Construction Author...

This month's edition of New York Family includes the 2008 Honor Roll of Family Heroes. It is great recognition for Leonie Haimson, blo...

See the priceless piece in today’s Daily News , about how Comptroller Thompson sent a letter to Chancellor Klein, challenging him on his o...

On October 14th, the New York City Department of Education released its second Annual Arts in the Schools Report for the 2006-2007 school y...

The new proposed 5-yr. capital plan for schools is posted here . This administration has once again surpassed any reasonable person's ex...

The City's five year capital plan for school construction has been released. There are only 17,000 new school seats despite generous S...

In today’s Washington Post , there is an article that says Joel Klein is a possibility for Sec. of Education in an Obama administration: ...

The City's capital budget is due to be released this week. Despite the enormous need for school seats and the refusal of the administ...

Dear President Faust; Thank you for your email from Sept. 12 . I was relieved to hear that though Harvard may be hosting Roland Fryer’s n...

I don’t get this NY Times article; the City Council gives a third term to a billionaire bully with dictatorial tendencies, and now they exp...

The most interesting aspect of the Daily News article that was spiked in the middle of the night was not that some top education officials ...