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  • Fremont Education Reform
  • June 16, 2011
Is public education failing our students and teachers? Look back at your education. Certainly one will find outstanding teachers. Teachers that you...
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San Francisco privatization funder laments insufficient standardized testing

A note of distress in a press release from the New Schools Venture Fund: "Today, in many schools, teachers administer standardized tests only...
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Ex-"reformer" Ravitch: "Why replace struggling public schools with worse charter schools?"

John Merrow blogs his interview with Diane Ravitch, the former Bush I administration education official who is now speaking out against the school...
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Edison Schools: It's baaaaack, and bringing with it innovations like child labor

Detroit’s public school system is hiring a retooled version of Edison Schools, a flopped school-reform fad of a few years ago, in a desperate...
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Stop presses: A defense of U.S. schools from the privatization world

President Obama was wrong to paint such a dismal picture of U.S. schools, a commentator declares on Forbes.com.. And the headline news is that the...
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Obama gets a lot of it wrong about public education

Boy, is President Obama confused. That was my reaction to his recent speech on education to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.It’s not just...
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Recess: Happy playtime or hellhole of fighting and bullying?

Recess is a time for kids to blow off steam, get fit, learn to play cooperatively, and use their imagination and creativity to invent games and...
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Is getting rid of bad teachers the miracle fix?

It’s all the teachers’ fault! And if it weren’t absolutely impossible to fire bad teachers – due to evil teachers’...
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D.C.'s imperious Rhee itches to wield the ax against teachers

Michelle Rhee is being watched. As she wrestles the demons of Washington, D.C.’s school system, the flashy chancellor of D.C.’s schools...
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Message to the next president: Common sense is the best school reform

Education activists in New York City and Chicago have teamed up to send an urgent letter to the presidential candidates calling for "common...
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