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One more for Gerald Bracey: How to honor his memory

Just one more post about Gerald Bracey, the dedicated, courageous, inspiring and sometimes acerbic education commentator who passed away sometime...

Chronicle columnist Chip Johnson’s gushing piece today on the struggling Envision charter school chain is just depressing, for a number of...

A letter in today's San Francisco Chronicle claims that "thousands" of alumni of the KIPP charter school chain have become the first in...

The San Francisco Chronicle editorializes today in favor of linking teacher pay to student test scores.“It’s hard to imagine what...

Boy, is the Washington Examiner’s editorial page staff flummoxed.The right-leaning newspaper picked up the recent reports that U.S. Secretary...

Today’s New York Times Sunday magazine, in an article about the California gubernatorial race, declares: “Test scores in (California)...

U.S. schools suck. We know that because a loud chorus, from President Obama to Bill Gates to legions of think-tank chin-scratchers, says so. But...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows a long-term trend of significant narrowing of the achievement gap between white...

The Daily Howler blog is a longtime, tenacious, frequently bombastic and quite-often on-the-money media critic. Blogger Bob Somerby is also a...

Gushing about charter schools is, unfortunately, a temptation that lures journalists who don't normally cover education and who thus fail to grasp...