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Should We Voucherize Title I?

The Future of Vouchers

PA: Serpents and School Boards and the ILC, Again

Enough Secret Sauce Coverage

Musicians Aren't Hatched

Good AI Is Not Good Teaching

What Does A High-Quality School Look Like

School Vouchers Have A Transparency Problem

TX: Greg Abbott Wants Teachers To Dress Regular

ICYMI: Opening Weekend Edition (4/28)

ACT Will Be For Profit (And Join The Ghost of Pearson)

PA: Let's Digitize The Big Standardized Test

Post #5000

OK: Walters Continues (Unsuccessful) Harassment Of Teacher

Cheers For Testing Season

FL: Ron DeSantis vs. Words (Also, Satan)

FL: Book Bans, Classical Schools, Charter Turnaround, And More

ICYMI: Tech Sunday Edition (4/21)

Moms For Liberty 3.0

How Pennsylvania’s New Right-Wing School Board Organization Might Operate

PA: Far Right Law Group Comes To Meadville

When Local Control Turns Toxic

New Documentary Portrait Of Trailblazing Florida Teacher

Creating More Defective Children

DEI, Charlamagne, and Racist Confusion

ICYMI: River's Rising Edition (4/14)

NE: Protecting Vouchers From Democracy

Curriculum As The Next Reformy Frontier

Heritage Versus Immigrant Children

Vouchers Are About Abandoning Public Education, Not Freeing Parents

Democracy Is A Pain

More Common Core Fallout

Vermont’s New Secretary Of Education Is About To Take Office Surrounded By Controversy

The Opportunity Myth Myth

Too Much For Mere Mortals

ICYMI: Big Fat Eclipse Edition (4/7)

A Useful Public School Support Resource

The State Of The Teaching Profession

SAT Scam Alert

Teaching Flow State

NC: A Truly Terrible Candidate For Education Chief

A Voucher By Any Other Name

Tennessee’s Failed School Takeover Experiment May Finally Shut Down

ICYMI: Easter Knee Birthday Band Edition (3/31)

Four Lessons Science Of Reading Supporters Can Learn From Common Core

The Trouble With Classical Education

What Ever Happened To Coursmos (Or, How Those MOOCs Doing These Days)

Tim Alberta And The Mystery of What Happened To The Church

ICYMI: Wavin' Those Palms Edition (3/24)

Kirk Cameron and M4L Have a Book for You

How About AI Lesson Plans?

Why Teach Literature Stuff #7 Everything Is Reading

New Report Gives Pennsylvania a C Grade for Its Support of Public Schools

Why Teach Literature Stuff: #6 Not For These Reasons

Why Teach Literature Stuff: #5 Language Is Power

Maine Court: Schools That Accept State Funding Must Abide By State Rules

Teacher Morale: Is Everything Fine?

Why Teach Literature Stuff: #4 Books Versus Video

Why Teach Literature Stuff: #3 Knowing Stuff Is Useful

BS Test Blows A Billion

When Grades Get In The Way Of Learning

Why Teach Literature Stuff: #2 Humanity

Why Teach Literature Stuff: #1 What Is It?

OK: Walters Wants To Take Local Mess National

ICYMI: My Least Favorite Holiday Edition (3/17)

Conflict, Silos, and Choice

Gigging, Progress, and the Unmaking of American Work

Practicing On Cyber Students (Sort Of)

PA: Vouchers Feed Discrimination

ICYMI: Lost Hour Edition (3/10)

Vouchers Are For Dodging Regulations

Another Writing Robo-teacher

A Truly Terrible Use For ChatGPT And Its Ilk

AI Judgement And The Shake And Bake School Paper

The Independence Law Center Seeks To Impose Its Biblical Worldview On Pennsylvania School Districts

60 Minutes Asked Moms for Liberty The Right Questions

ICYMI: In Like A Weasel Edition (3/3)

ID: The Fake Superintendent Saga Continues

DeVos And Other Rich Carpetbaggers Target Texas

School Choice Movement Fissures (2024 Edition)

Report: North Dakota Number One In Nation For Public Education Support

ICYMI: Audition Edition (2/25)

How Much Are Universal School Vouchers Costing Arizona?

TN: More Unregulated, Unaccountable Vouchers On Tap

Beauty, the Rip, and Expectations

Survey Finds Bipartisan Support For Public Schools, Wide Gaps On LGBTQ, Race Issues In Education

Just How Discriminatory Are Private Christian Schools

PA: Hillsdale Headed For State College

TX: Using Computers To Make STAAR Test Worse

Parents Defending Education Comes Out As Anti-Choice

American Board: Bush II's Teacher Cert Workaround

Did DeSantis Back Off Book Bans? Well....

The Panic Is No Accident

ICYMI: Presidential Birthdays Edition (2/18)

PA: Central Bucks Culture Panic Board Members Consider Their Options

Administrators and The Big Chill

If Not for Those Darn Kids

Active Shooter

Free Market vs. The Poor

In Florida, A Bill To Stop “Woke” Teacher Training

IN: From the AG, Another Edu-witch Hunt Site

I Was A Teenage Indoctrinee

New Anti-Woke School Board Association

The Jazz of Teaching

ICYMI: Sleepover Edition (2/11)

Research Shows What State Standardized Tests Actually Measure

The First Hurdle

Measuring Success: A Study in Contrasts

The Problem with "Monopoly."

WSJ Runs Anti-Union Choice Spin

MO: Candidate Burns Books

Schools As Vocational Training

OH: Yet Another Voucher Bill

Where Reading Improvement Comes From

Can Girls Get A Christian Classical Education

ICYMI: Ice Festival Edition (2/4)

Pandemic Testophilia

Privatization Costs

Inquiry Vs. Direct Instruction

Study: Test Data Does Not Help Students Raise Test Scores

OK: New Senator Deevers All In On Christian Nationalism

We Need Public Education, Media Literacy, and Real History (Reminder #423,997)

In Iowa, Legislators Consider Singing Requirements And Unlicensed Chaplains For Schools

Pennsylvania Needs Another Cyber Charter Like A Hole In The Head. Shapiro Administration Approves One Anyway.

ICYMI: Halfway There Edition (1/28)

Mystery Coalition Pushing National School Choice

TX: Dumb Fight On Hair Mountain

The Real Obstacles To School Choice

The Fallacy In Learning Loss Panic

Meet Your Dead Teacher

Students and Deadlines

NH: Ramping Up Vouchers

Will New Version Of Snow Days Make Districts Wimpier?

Unbundling and Dismantling

ICYMI: Seriously Winter Edition (1/21)

Dear TC: About School Vouchers

When There's No Support From The Front Office

Pennsylvania’s Path To Better (And More Expensive) School Funding

Who's Behind The Stripping Of Child Labor Protections?

Relay Graduate School of (Charter) Education

"Evidence Based" Does Not Mean What You Think It Does

Does The New Mean Girls Get High School Right?

Just How Many Rights Can A School Grant Parents?

A Rockwell Anniversary

ICYMI: All The Weather Edition (1/14)

Whose Religious Freedom?

Report: Arizona’s Voucher Report Card Shows Much Room For Improvement

Why The Reading Wars Will Never End

Denver Archdiocese Sues For Right To Discriminate On Public Dime

Ron Johnson Says It Out Loud: Other People's Children Aren't My Problem

More Child Labor

OK: Freedom and Rights Only For The Chosen

AZ: Reining In The Vouchers

OH: New Education Czar Does Not Impress

ICYMI: Getting Up To Speed Edition (1/7)

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Merit

Voucher Bankruptcy's Feature Future

Directory of Anti-Teacher Trolls

IA: How Federal Judge Gets It Right, Blocks Don't Say Gay

Rufo, Horse Racing, and Bullying

Christian Nationalists Are Closer Than Ever To Getting Church-Run Public Schools

FL: New Puritanism vs. An Old Puritan