Choosing Democracy

With the resignation of Alan Bersin as Secretary of Education the Schwarzenegger Administration has an important opportunity to appoint a m...

Testing the NCLB: Study shows that NCLB hasn't significantly impacted national achievement scores or narrowed the racial gaps June 14, 2...

Civil Rights Project plans move from Harvard campus to UCLA Harvard University’s Civil Rights Project, perhaps the most prominent U.S. acade...

High-Stakes Testing and Student Learning No Child Left Behind “The Department of Education has recently claimed that No Child Left Behind (...

Iran-contra: 20 Years Later and What It Means David Corn It's the 20th anniversary of the Iran-contra scandal. Two decades ago, the publ...

There are more than 14,900 school districts in the nation, and almost one thousand in California, yet researchers and advocates can n...

$6 billion windfall a bonus to schools Groups to pitch uses as state revenues rise, enrollment declines - Lynda Gledhill, Chronicle Sacramen...

Kids are not born with an intrinsic motivation to seek success in school. They have to be taught this preference. With older students, in...

Let us be clear. One activist teacher in a school is excellent, but is not school reform. Two activists are not school reform. One prog...

We have experienced over twenty years of corporate driven “school reform”. Usually the administrators in charge have adopted an accountabi...

Across California, however, achievement gaps have not narrowed, and in some cases they have widened since 2001, according to a study of Cali...

Note; Posting this portion of the speech does not mean that I agree with the ideas. President's Speech Speech to the Center for the Stud...

Sacramento Progressive Alliance Media Advisory Nov. 18,2006 For immediate release: Nov. 18, 2006 For more information Duane Camp...

Don’t’ face school reform alone; organize An organizing model for school change. We know from experience in several cities that school refo...

NY. Times. April 9, 2006 The New York City schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, is once again rethinking the nation's largest school syst...

OpinionJournal Wall Street Journal Online November 15, 2006 ELECTION 2006 Class Struggle American workers have a chance to be heard. BY JIM ...

Just Whose Idea was all this testing? By Jay Mathews
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 14, 2006; A06 The Washington Post: In an...

Bill Moyers This I do know: We should be honest about what we mean by “urban education.” We are talking about the poorest and most vulnerabl...

From: LA Weekly. Voters Snookered. Nov.8, 2006. As it turns out, those who want honest and accountable government have taken matters into t...

Radical Possibilities; Public Policy, urban education, and a new social movement. Jean Anyon. 2005 Radical Possibilities is a well written ...