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Caroline Grannan was an editor at the San Jose Mercury News for 12 years. Currently she contributes to a number of Internet sites dealing with education and schools. She is a San Francisco public school parent, advocate, and volunteer and has followed education politics locally and nationwide.

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One more for Gerald Bracey: How to honor his memory

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Just one more post about Gerald Bracey, the dedicated, courageous, inspiring and sometimes acerbic education...
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Chronicle gushing about Envision Schools charters is just plain sad

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Chronicle columnist Chip Johnson’s gushing piece today on the struggling Envision charter school chain is...
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Debunking yet another false claim about KIPP alumni and college

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A letter in today's San Francisco Chronicle claims that "thousands" of alumni of the KIPP charter school...
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If teachers should get paid based on students' test scores, how about journalists?

The San Francisco Chronicle editorializes today in favor of linking teacher pay to student test scores. “It’s hard to imagine what better...
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Dead-trees journalists confused after reports about Duncan's inflated resume

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Boy, is the Washington Examiner’s editorial page staff flummoxed. The right-leaning newspaper picked up the recent reports that U.S. Secretary...
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NY Times damns the entire Calif. school system -- and gets it dead wrong

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Today’s New York Times Sunday magazine, in an article about the California gubernatorial race, declares: “Test scores in (California)...
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The AP gets it right! Rumors of U.S. education's demise exaggerated

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 what...
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The achievement gap has narrowed -- is that glass half-empty or half-full?

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The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows a long-term trend of significant narrowing of the achievement gap between white students...
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Rebutting the media Big Dogs' latest barks about public school "failure"

The Daily Howler blog is a longtime, tenacious, frequently bombastic and quite-often on-the-money media critic. Blogger Bob Somerby is also a former...
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Dead-trees journalists drink the charter school Kool-Aid

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