Politics
POTUS v. SCOTUS
Is Education on the Wrong Track?
From: Diane Ravitch To: Ben Wildavsky Subject: The education reform "consensus" ignores teachers, the very people needed to carry out change in classrooms. READ MORE >>
If the Republicans are going to continue spreading the fiction that Congressional Democrats are playing fast and loose with procedural rules, then D.C. journalists at least have the obligation to fully explain those procedures to their readers and put them in the proper context. READ MORE >>
Citizens Unite
There has been a growing fury about the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case, but much of that fury hangs upon an odd reading of the Court’s opinion. The Court, it is said, has given corporations all the rights of “persons.” It has elevated these artificial beings into entities “endowed by their Creator” (us) “with certain unalienable rights,” including the right to free speech. READ MORE >>
Man of Letters
This is the way it happens. READ MORE >>
Has Education Reform Gone Too Far?
What Failure Would Cost the Democrats
How to Stop the Bleeding
Moment of Clarity
In The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Diane Ravitch charges that the Obama administration's enthusiasm for charter schools can undermine democratic values because, when more motivated parents choose charter schools, regular schools are left with a concentration of needier students. She mocks the administration's claims that its policies are evidence-based, describing research showing that charters, on average, perform about the same as regular schools--probably because "abysmal" charter schools are balanced by excellent ones. READ MORE >>
