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Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Veteran journalist Andrea Gabor explains that Betsy DeVos got the Trump administration to commit fully behind her voucher obsession, rolling some 29 or 30 programs into a block grant, including the toxic federal…

Originally posted on janresseger:
You might imagine that Bill and Melinda Gates, with all their money, a large staff, and access to research would have developed a more nuanced and helpful strategy for school reform.  But you’d be wrong.  In…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Sarah Vowell is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times where this article appeared. Proponents of vouchers often claim that the state prohibitions on public funding of religious schools were birthed…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Two Wisconsin legislators published an opinion piece about the harm that school choice is doing to the state’s public schools. Jon Erpenbach and Sondy Pope object to the way that vouchers have taken…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
About 30 public schools in Broward County may close due to loss of students to charter schools. The original purpose of charter schools was to collaborate with public schools, not to destroy them.…

Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Every school reform is a solution to a problem. How a problem is identified (e.g., unilaterally, multilaterally) and who does the framing of it (e.g., policymakers, practitioners, parents), of…

Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Who am I quoting here? Hint: Quotes come from person born in the 19th century. If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a…

Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
After Minnesota authorized charter schools in 1991, a group of veteran teachers founded City Academy in St. Paul. It became the first publicly funded charter school in 1992. A…