Sitemap - 2023 - Curmudgucation
School Letter Grades And Staffing
ICYMI: New Year Already Please (12/31)
Three Education Stories To Watch In 2024
Virginia Lee Burton: An Appreciation
Reformster Rhetorical Routines To Watch for in the New Year
Moms Launch Another Anti-Woke Group: Awake American
ICYMI: Christmas Eve Edition (12/24)
What Is A Day Of Learning, Anyway?
The Wrongest Sentence Ever in the CCSS Debate
OK: Ed Secretary Ryan Walters' Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Year
Revisiting the Freedom Foundation
MO: Another Ugly Anti-LGBTQ Bill
Where Have All The Teen Athletes Gone?
ICYMI: Handel Holiday Edition (12/17)
Kentucky Court Delivers Another Setback For School Choice
Would Medicare-For-All Come With An Education Bonus?
Iowa Demonstrates Why The Wall Between Church And State Must Stand
Sarasota School Board Should Not Expel Ziegler
Grade Retention Sleight of Hand
ICYMI: Nice Spring Day Edition (12/10)
PA: Penncrest School District Has Such Legal Issues
FL: Higher Education Nightmare
Pennsylvania Taxpayers Are Subsidizing Discrimination At Private And Religious Voucher Schools
Choice v. Social Justice and Equity
The Ziegler Story and the Trouble with Hypocrisy
A Civics Website Aims To Extend Its Educational Reach
The Jingle Bells Effect And The Canon
ICYMI: Bonus Week Edition (12/3)
Social Impact Bonds Are Still A Thing, Sadly
The Semi-Annual Attempt To Legalize Religious Discrimination
Universal Vouchers Unmask True Goals
AR: Are Vouchers Rescuing Anyone?
More Voucher-Fueled Price Hikes
How Bad Can It Get? Diplomas For $465
School Choice And The Broken Promise Of Accountability
Chris Rufo Wants To Boost More Culture Chaos Agents
ICYMI: Deer Shootin' Time Edition (11/26)
The Seven Most Powerful Words In Education
Why You Think Kids These Days Are Terrible
CAP's Unimaginative Reimagining
Charter School Real Estate Profits
Project 2025 Wants To End Public Education As We Know It
PA: Moms For Liberty Philly Leader A Registered Sex Offender
VAM: Why Is This Zombie Policy Still Around?
ICYMI: Light-Up Edition (11/19)
PA: District Loses Fight Against After School Satan Club
USED Has A New ABC Dream (But with cool charts)
Choice, Parents, Power, Caveat Emptor, and Stupid
Why Market Forces Will Not Provide Charter School Accountability
Secular Education Is Not Religious Persecution
PA: Central Bucks Super Gets Solid Gold Parachute
OH: Foxes in Charge of Henhouses
ICYMI: My Mom's Birthday Edition (11/12)
Illinois Becomes First State To Roll Back School Voucher Program
New Hampshire Is Contemplating A New Schooling Model. Why The Odds Are Not In Their Favor
Why A National Christian Foundation?
Right Wing School Board Members In Pennsylvania Lose Critical Districts
The Anti-Reading Crowd Is Never Satisfied
Life Is Not A Cabaret, Old Chum
ICYMI: Fall Back Edition (11/5)
Rules and Charter Innovation (A Paired Text Exercise)
OK: Walters Itching For National Stage
M4L School Board Candidate Is A Big Fat Liar
Music and the Death of Shared Spaces
The History Christian Nationalists Want
Can We Trust "Evidence-Based"?
PA: Senate Proposes Guide To School's Naughty Bits
Economist Douglas Harris: Schools Cannot Fit A Free Market
Just How Discriminatory Are Private Christian Schools
The Real Moms For Liberty Origin Story
Teaching Bad Test Prep Writing For Fun And Profit
ICYMI: NPE in DC Edition (10/29)
Zuck's Tech Revolution That Never Happened
Are Moms for Liberty More About Elections Than Education
The Squishiness of Writing Instruction
Vouchers Are Not Rescuing Poor Students From Failing Public Schools
Senators Propose Bill To Loosen Charter School Money Stream
Teen Suicide, Common Core, and the Price of Fear
Dueling Lawsuits Open Up Questions About Leading Online Learning Company
Let's Have Education Choice: Part II (How To)
ICYMI: Outdoor Overture Edition (10/22)
Oklahoma Attorney General Sues To Stop Nation’s First Religious Charter School
We don't have to do this, you know
Let's Have Education Choice: Part I (Premises)
Vermilion Education Gives Pennridge School District Curriculum A Right-Wing Makeover
What Is The Christian Educators Association?
OK: State Issued Prayer And True Threats To The Church
ICYMI: Bad Week For The World Edition (10/15)
Dear Voters: Please Pay Attention
TX: How Bad Is The Newest Voucher Proposal
OK: Trump Judge Stalls Decision On Gag Law Injunction
Is Teaching An Art Or A Science? Well...
What The WSJ Anti-Public Ed Op-Ed Gets Wrong
What Koch Wants From Candidates
How Vouchers Bust State Budgets
In Nebraska, The Fate Of A New Voucher Program May Be Decided At Ballot Box
Hess, Duncan, and the End Of National Ed Reform
Re: Microschools and the hype cycle
ICYMI: Applefest Edition (10/7)
My Testimony For The PA House Education Tour
NC: When Charters Become Orphans
The Banned Books Week Counterattack
PA: One Moms For Liberty Alternative--Grandmas for Love
ICYMI: Mighty Pups Edition (9/30)
Let's Just Test All The Damned Year
Do Rock Star Teachers Really Need A Union???
Teaching Lessons from Community Theater
When Discussing Education, Beware Of Averages
In Rural Pennsylvania, A Small Non-Profit Helps Schools Develop STEM Education
OK: Notre Dame Law School Aids Push For Catholic Charter
ID: West Bonner's Fake Superintendent Quits. Probably.
Florida Demonstrates A Rarely Discussed Issue With School Vouchers
ID: West Bonner Tries To Fight Back, But Fake Superintendent Still In Place
The Trouble With Single Parents
Are Secular Public Schools Behind America’s Loss Of Faith? A New Book Suggests Other Answers
Time for Reformster Benefit Poker Again
What I'll Really Miss About Twitter
The Grammar of Fetterman's Hoodie
Will AI Bring Us The Future Of Education That We Actually Want, Or Need?
Plunder, Private Equity, and Education
When Choice Advocates Work Really Closely With Legislators
ICYMI: Bunch of Dads Edition (9/17)
Christopher Rufo and the End of Public Education
NM: 10 Year Struggle To Fix Funding
ID: Fake Superintendent Fails To Get Real Certificate
School Choice Isn't Uber. It's LulaRoe.
NH: What Ever Happened To Croydon's School Budget Slasher?
NH: Prenda Just Hit The Jackpot. Who Are They?
Report: The Flaws In Charter Funding Research
ICYMI: Here Comes Monday Edition (9/10)
Is Public School On Its Deathbed?
Can district school choice help desegregate?
The Praying Coach Quit After One Game
On School Satisfaction, The Gap Between Parents And Non-Parents Is Huge
Petrilli: "Hey, Let's Do No Child Left Behind Again!"
Anti-Union Unions Still Recruiting
ICYMI: Another Labor Day Edition (9/3)
Bloomberg: Just Pack Those Kids In There
MI: Parental Leave Is Vacation
Questions for Voucher Supporters
What's In Hillsdale's 1776 Curriculum?
Public Schools’ New, Uneven Landscape
Post-Janus Union Busters Not Done Yet
Texas Chaplains Urge Districts To Reject New School Chaplain Plan
PA: Pennridge Right Wing Looks To Pack Audience At Board Meeting
ICYMI: Quiet Soon Edition (8/27)
The Atomization Of Literature: How Standardized Testing Is Killing Reading Instruction
PA: Shapiro Still Looking For Ways To Support Choice
ARK: Not Even Pretending Any More
Advocacy, Journalism, and the Science of Reading
PEN America Reports On Rise In Teacher Intimidation Legislation
Gates: AI Like Great High School Teacher
ICYMI: Last Hurrah Edition (8/19)
NH: Prenda Just Hit The Jackpot. Who Are They?
The Koch Wish List (Spoiler: Microschools)
GA: Teacher Fired, Book Suppressed, And It's Just Bullshit
Fear and Silence in the Classroom
PA: In Central Bucks, Students May Have To Certify Gender
TX: Intolerance and Classroom Politics
ALEC Has Bad Plans for Education
ICYMI: Final Stretch Edition (8/13)
Children's Books To Really Avoid
The Key To A Better Future For Students May Be Social-Emotional Growth, Not Standardized Test Scores
UT: State Board Member Attacks Teachers
ICYMI: August, Somehow Edition (8/6)
Another Reformster Changes Their Mind Re: Big Standardized Tests
Florida's Black History Standards Are A Feel Good Story
Revisiting Marshmallows (Once Again, Money Matters)
The Failed Engineering Model of Personalized [sic] Learning
ICYMI: And Now We Are X Edition (7/30)
Why You Can't Fire Your Way To Excellence
What Privatization Actually Means
No Zero Grading And The Mystery of Assessment
Writing Across The Curriculum (Yikes)
A Good Teacher Is Not Like A Candle
ICYMI: Vacation Edition (7/23)
Dear Teachers: Don't Make Your Lesson Relevant
Does Social and Emotional Learning Belong in School?
Are Charter Schools Dramatically Outperforming Public Schools? A New Report Says Look More Carefully
Meat Widgets and the End of College
The Problem of Parent Centered Education
Why Teachers Can't Have a Seat at the Table
Does School Choice Harm Or Help US Education? | Breaking Points w/James Li
No Labels Education Platform: Same Old Same Old
PA: Commonwealth Action And Vouchers
ICYMI: A Birthday Edition (7/16)
School Districts Punish Folks Who Draw Unwanted Attention To Controversial Policies
PA: Cyber Schools Spend $16.8 Million On Marketing In One Year
Let's Not Try To Make Book Banning Illegal
OK: One Tulsan Has Had Enough Of Ryan Walters
PA: What the Vouchers Would Cost
The Myths Of Merit Scholarships
Cyber Charter Reform Could Finally Be Coming To Pennsylvania
ICYMI: Limited Twitter Edition (7/9)
Would These Ideas Bolster The Teaching Profession
OK: Walters Wants To Explain Woke
Would Legalizing Discrimination Improve Education
ICYMI: Glass Slipper Edition (7/2)
PA Senate Passes School Voucher Bill. Conservative Coalition Gives Josh Shapiro Full Court Press
ID: A Baffling Hiring Decision And Another Type Of District Takeover
Supreme Court Will Not, At This Time, Rule On Whether Charter Schools Are Public Or Private
OK: AG's Office Says State Failed In Attempt To Smear Teacher
ICYMI: Tech Sunday Edition (6/25)
PA: Bad Voucher Bill on Fast Track
#TBT High Quality Instructional Materials
Why Bother Accrediting Colleges
PA: Penncrest on PBS NewHour (with Penncrest Reader)
Teach For America Is Rebranding Again (Again)
NC: Charter Fires Teacher For Teaching Book About Race
Aldeman Tries Making a Progressive Case for Choice
ICYMI: Father's Day 2023 Edition (6/18)
NC: Vouchers For Ghost Students
Can All Culture War Combatants Agree On This?
Feds Tells SCOTUS To Let Charter School Remain Public
Koch's West Virginia Voucher Mountain
ICYMI: Summer's Here Edition (6/11)
Be Careful What You (Say You) Wish For
The Schoolhouse Wall Between Church And State Could Face A Final And Definitive Challenge.
Report Examines The World Of Right Wing Charter Schools.
Twelve Education Activist Groups (Including Moms For Liberty) Make Southern Poverty Extremist List
Oklahoma Has Approved The First Religious Charter School. What Will This Mean For The Future?
Hess: "Is School Choice an ‘Attack’ on Public Education?"
ICYMI: Still Here Edition (6/4)
Hard Pandemic Lessons From The Stolen Year
ICYMI: Memorial Day Weekend 2023 Edition (5/28)
Working Paper Finds More Ways That Students Are Ill-Served By Cyber Charter Schools.
FL: The Prequel To Moms For Liberty Is Resurrecting Itself
Good night, Mr. Big (not an education post)
When Is A Book Ban Not A Book Ban? Are Reading Restrictions Just Curation In Action?
Available To All: Same Old Crew, New Wrapper
Moms For Liberty and the LGBTQ Conspiracy
ICYMI: I Don't Feel OIder Edition (5/21)
20 Rules for Life (2023 Edition)
The Arch-Conservative Bradley Foundation Is Waging A War On Democracy
#TBT The Domestic Supply of Meat Widgets
FL: Doubling Down On "Don't Say Gay"
PA: The Culture War School Board Checklist
ICYMI: Mother's Day 2023 Edition (5/14)
#TBT The Myth of the Hero Teacher
#TBT A Good Teacher Is Not Like A Candle
The Pandemic and The Testing Red Herring
Choice Advocates Argue: How Far Is Too Far?
PA: Education Commission Loaded With Red Flags
The End of Ed Reform and a Clue For Dems
School Choice and Tuition Inflation
The Best Teacher Appreciation Week Gift That Money Can’t Buy
ICYMI: Teacher Appreciation Week Edition (5/7)
Five Hard Truths About The Big Standardized Test
#TBT The Morality of Artificial Intelligence
Can We Fix Civics and History Education
Happy Teacher Appreciation Day
In Birmingham Schools, More Days Of Drama
ICYMI: So Long, April Edition (4/30)
PA: Hillsdale Comes To Pennridge
#TBT How Will The Free Market Save The Most Challenging Students
Things To Remember About Pandemic Schooling
It's Testing Damn Season Again
3 Pennsylvania School Districts Take State To Court
Teacher Evaluation: The Revolution Didn't Work
ICYMI: Concert Season Edition (4/23)
IN: Anti-SEL Activist Loses In Court
#TBT Vouchers Are About Abandoning Public Education, Not Freeing Parents
Phonics, Skills And Knowledge: What Matters For Teaching Reading
McKinsey Has Some Data On Teacher Attrition, And Some Of It Is Interesting
PA: Going After Climate Change Porn
Immeasurable Outcomes And The Humanity Of Education
ICYMI: Happy Taxes Edition (4/16)
The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession
The Libertarian Argument Against Religious Charters
Moms For Liberty Plays Victim Card
Chester Finn's heretical insights
Website for Tracking CRT Panic Bills
Bradley Foundation To Honor Betsy DeVos
Universal Vouchers: A Gateway To Discrimination
In Maine, Lawsuit Argues That State Must Fund Discrimination In Religious Schools
Voucher Opposition On The Right
FL: Is Hillsdale Coming For Sarasota Schools
Pennsylvania Is The Cyber Charter Capital Of The Country. It’s Not Something To Celebrate
The Empty and Expensive Promise of School Voucher Programs
Sec. Cardona's Bold Bowl Of Oatmeal (And That's Okay)
ICYMI: Out Like A Drunken Lion Edition (4/2)
Bill Hangley, Jr.: Abbott's Lesson for Charters: Look In The Mirror...Please (Guest Post)
Survey: 1 In 8 Florida Incoming Freshmen Plan To Flee DeSantis’s Education Policies
Who's Pushing Vouchers? Could It Be Betsy DeVos?
Congressman Proposes End To The Big Standardized Test
I Am Done With These School Shooting Arguments
Independent Women's Forum Performs Some Covid Theater
ICYMI: National Spinach Day Edition (3/26)
Of Course Schools Teach About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Should Student Teachers Be Paid
Testing and the Love of Reading
Can The Right Reconcile With Teachers
KY: Putting Religion In The Classroom
PA: Failed Candidate Not Done Attacking Public Education
ICYMI: Family Visit Edition (3/19)
NH: School Opponent Ousted From Board
The Most Misused Statistics In Education.
PA: Board Member "I don't care what the law says."
Democrats Unveil Their Parents' Rights Thing
A New Book Captures The Reality Of Teacher Work
ChatGPT Will Power Personalized Learning
Asking Teachers To Do Fewer Things Better
ICYMI: One Hour Less Edition (3/12)
Alexandra Robbins Gets It Right: Read This Book
National Parents Bill of Rights Is Wasting Time
OH: Parents Only Matter Sometimes (Example #154,233)
The Trouble With Don't Say Gay Laws In One Conversation
NH: Working To Further Silence Teachers
ICYMI: In Like A Lamb Edition (3/5)
Moms For Liberty Continue Working For Team DeSantis
The Call To Abolish Public Education
Relate Then Educate Podcast: Let's Talk Vouchers and Merit-Based Pay
FL: Want to blog about the governor? Register with the state, or face a fine.
The DeVos School Privatization Plan Turns Twenty-One
ChatGPT Entered A High School Essay Contest. It’s Not Going To Win.
Idaho GOP Rejects School Voucher Bill
VA: Book-Burning Board Member Draws Felony Indictment
ICYMI: The Shortest Month Edition (2/26)
How To Prepare High Quality Teachers
FL: DeSantis Clamps Down On Ideological Impurity, Targets More School Board Members
OK: The Legislature Puts Ryan Walters In A Box
Will Pennsylvania Ever See Cyber Charter Reform, Or Will Taxpayers Continue To Get Soaked?
ICYMI: Road Trip Edition (2/19)
OK: Catholic Church Proposes Religious Charter
One Choice Fan Taps The Breaks On Vouchers
AK: Governor Sanders Has A Very Bad Plan For Education
NCTQ Has Some Thoughts About Teacher Layoffs
In Iowa, Redefined Obscenity, Forced Outing, And Retraining Sessions
PA: Court Ruling Is Not A Victory For School Choice
USA Still World's Worst For Parental Leave
Vermont Moves To Restrict School Vouchers
Court: Present Pennsylvania School Funding System Is Unconstitutional
What Trump 2024 Tells Us About The Politics Of Education
Congressman Proposes Turning Title Funds Into Vouchers
ICYMI: Arctic Blast Edition (2/5)
Bellwether's Big Book O'Data Worth A Look
AZ: How Do You Make School Grading Systems Worse
GOP Proposes Federal School Voucher (Again)
Netflix May Have Bad News For Teachers.
PA: Cyberschools Stockpile Money, State Averts Its Gaze
How School Voucher Laws Protect Discrimination.
PA: Penncrest Reading Restrictions May Face Legal Issues
McKinsey's Ridiculous Projection Of Learning Loss Damage
Koch's Yes Every Kids: Still Selling Privatization
Some Parental Rights Folks Are Going To Have Big Regrets
ICYMI: Groundhog Day Edition (1/29)
The Magical Thinking of School Choice
PA: 445 School Districts Call For Charter Reform
UT: Vouchers Pass With Serious Shenanigans
Vouchers Are Not About School Choice. Here's How We Know.
Jeb Bush Weighs In On Florida Voucher Giveaway
ND: Actual Anti-Furry Legislation. Really.
Choice, Vouchers, and the End of Public Education
ICYMI: Is It Still January Edition (1/22)
UT: Vouchers and a Cynical Bribe
FL: Don't Say African American Studies
Is It Really Equity Vs. Excellence?
Should We Tear The Paper Ceiling?
The Role Of Real Estate In The For-Profit Charter School Grift
How Can We Teach Writing In A ChatGPT World?
NH: Supporting Vouchers By Changing the Law
Virginia Is Considering Four School Voucher Bills. Each One Is A Bad Deal For Taxpayers.
Time To Get Your Copy Of Wolf At The Schoolhouse Door
ICYMI: MLK Weekend Edition (1/15)
PA: Penncrest Passes Reading Restrictions
FL: Moms For Liberty Want Expansion Of "Don't Say Gay"
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Waves At Windmills
Report: Virtual Charter Schools Run For Profit Grew During Pandemic
NWEA Purchased To Become Marketing Tool
The Choice Rural Students Don't Need
Supremes Ask Biden Administration To Chime In On Public Charter Skirts Case
ICYMI: The Normal Edition (1/8)
California's Creepy Cradle to Career Pipeline
FL: Can We Stop Pretending This Is About Choice?
What George Will Missed About That Charter Case
School Vouchers Have Been A Disaster—Now Advocates Are Trying To Rename Them
Charter Operators: "Don't Call Us Public"
Is This The Conservative View Of Education?
AZ: When Christians Stand Up To Anti-LGBTQ School Leaders
Pay Students To Go To School? (Bad Pandemic Recovery Idea #42,231)