K-12 Issues

2019

• How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement (Propublic 6/18/19)
• The Implicit Punishment of Daring to Go to College When Poor (NYT 3/28/19)

2018

• DeVos Will Join Turning Point USA, Conservative Campus Group, at Conference (CHE 7/23/18)
• The Numbers That Explain Why Teachers Are in Revolt (NYT 6/4/18)
• Matt Bevin’s Revenge? (New Republic 5/4/18)
• "A Nation at Risk" and the Re-Segregation of Schools (IHE 5/4/18)
• The Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools (Naked Capitalism 4/9/18)
• Duncan Revises Again: Courage and Betsy DeVos (Curmudgucation 4/2/18)

2017

• CUNY to Revamp Remedial Programs, Hoping to Lift Graduation Rates (NYT 3/19/17)
• The Next Step in the Trump-DeVos Plan to Send Taxpayer Money to Religious Schools (Mother Jones 3/3/17)

2016

• Democrats Revise Education Platform; Step Back From Phony “Reform” (Academe Blog 7/13/16)
• Spending on Prisons and Schools (Academe Blog 7/9/16)
• A Sea of Charter Schools in Detroit Leaves Students Adrift (NYT 6/28/16)
• Kansas Parents Worry Schools Are Slipping Amid Budget Battles (NYT 5/31/16)
• The Education System Is Rigged Against Low-Income Students, Even In Kindergarten (Huff Po 5/26/16)
• Vergara Reversed! (Academe Blog 4/14/16)
• Charter Schools Are Suspending Kids More Than Other Schools, And That’s A Problem (Huff Po 3/16/16)
• 'Got to Go': High-Performing Charter Schools Shed Students Quickly (Guardian 2/21/16)
• Why Do the Media Cry “Crisis” About Public Schools? Why Do They Ignore the Voices of Teachers? (Diane Ravitch 1/13/16)
• We’re Onto the Phony Education Reformers: Charter School Charlatans and Faux Reformers Take it on the Chin (Salon 1/9/16)

2015

• Student Press Censorship, 2015 (Academe Blog 12/30/15)
• Here's The Devastating Way Our College System Fails Poor Kids (Huff Po 12/17/15)
• House Restores Local Education Control in Revising No Child Left Behind (NYT 12/2/15)
• Study Finds Race is Growing Explanatory Factor for SAT Scores in California (IHE 10/27/15)
• Obama Administration Calls for Limits on Testing in Schools (NYT 10/24/15)
• Let’s Take it to Michelle Rhee and Bill Gates: Here’s How Democrats Should Talk About Education Tonight (Salon 10/13/15)
• Lawmakers Move to Limit Government’s Role in Education (NYT 7/8/15)
• Federal Privacy Bill a 'Missed Opportunity' for Obama Administration, legal scholars say (IHE 3/25/15)
• Pearson Monitoring Social Media for Security Breaches During PARCC Testing (Wa Po 3/14/15)
• Essay on Teaching the Great Books to Low-Income High School Students (IHE 1/9/15)
• Intervening With High Performing, Low-Income Students Changes Enrollment Patterns, Study Finds (IHE 1/5/15)

2014

• Rage Against the Common Core (NYT 12/27/14)
• Many Want More Money; UC Should Get In Line (LAT 12/7/14)
• Public Charter Schools That Failed to Meet Texas Standards Are Still Operating (NYT 11/15/14)
• What it Really Means to be a Public School Educator Today (NYT 11/12/14)
• Behind the Campaign To Purge Textbooks of "Pro-Muslim Bias" in Texas (io9 11/12/14)
• States Listen as Parents Give Rampant Testing an F (NYT 11/9/14)
• Philadelphia’s School Reform Debacle: Despised Governor Crosses the Line (Salon 10/7/14)
• In Washington State, Political Stand Puts Schools in a Bind (NYT 10/4/14)
• School Board Defies Protest of Hundreds to Pass Review of US History Curriculum (Guardian 10/3/14)
• De Blasio Plans Revised Code for Discipline in Schools (NYT 9/28/14)
• Venture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt' Everything About the Education Market (The Nation 9/25/14)
• In Colorado, a Student Counterprotest to an Anti-Protest Curriculum (NYT 9/23/14)
• Syracuse U. Curbs Work with Program to Help Urban Youth Attend College (IHE 9/23/14)
• High School Students Care More About Free Speech than Adults, Poll Finds (Guardian 9/17/14)
• With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise (NYT 9/14/14)
• Truancy Rates are Higher Among California's Low-Income Students, Report Says (LAT 9/12/14)
• The Original Charter School Vision (NYT 8/30/14)
• Will a Florida County's Bold Decision to Opt Out of State Testing Catch Fire? (Huff Po 8/29/14)
• Innovative Columbia Program Uses Humanistic Knowledge to Help Under-served High School Students Prepare for College (NYT 8/4/14)
• “Stupid, Absurd, Non-Defensible”: New NEA President Lily Eskelsen García on the Problem with Arne Duncan, Standardized Tests and the War on Teachers (Salon 7/30/14)
• Commitment in Texas to Fiscal Restraint Adds Burden for Education (NYT 7/10/14)
• University of California Certifies Apex Learning Courses for Freshman Admission (Digital Journal 6/25/14)
• Judge Strikes Down California’s Teacher Tenure Laws: A Made-Up Statistic Helped Him Reach the Decision (Slate 6/12/14)
• K-12 Tenure Declared Unconstitutional in California: Could Higher Ed be Next? (Changing Universities 6/11/14)
• “Strict Scrutiny” of Vergara Ruling a Setback for California Teachers (InterACT 6/11/14)
• Why That Ruling Against Teacher Tenure Won't Help your Schoolchildren (LAT 6/11/14)
• What Was the Evidence in the Vergara Case? Who Wins? Who Loses? (Diane Ravitch 6/11/14)
• Why Do Most Black and Latino Students Go to Two-Year Colleges? (The Atlantic 5/22/14)
• Doing What’s Easy: Comments on “Who Gets to Graduate?” (The EduOptimists 5/18/14)
• Schools v. Prisons: Education's the way to Cut Prison Population (Mercury News 5/16/14)
• Data Mining Your Children (Politico 5/15/14)
• Texas' Top 10% Plan May Just be Shifting Elite Students from Private to Public Colleges (CHE 4/22/14)
• Lack of preparation for Calif. high school graduates raises concerns (Daily Bruin 4/9/14)
• U.S. Students Strong at Problem Solving, but Trail Other Nations (NYT 4/1/14)
• How Businesses Use Your SATs (NYT 3/29/14)
• Bending the Prison Cost Curve (CBP 3/26/14)
• Peter Taylor to Step Down in April (LAT 3/25/14)
• For Parents and Children, A UC Chain is Broken (SacBee 3/16/14)
• Wyoming Chooses Fossil Fuels Over Science Education (Salon 3/14/14)
• David Welch: The Man Behind Vergara v. California (Capital and Main 2/20/14)
• Scrutiny in California for Software in Schools (NYT 2/20/14)
• Teachers & Children Last: California Trial Showcases the Corporate War on Public Education (FDL 2/19/14)
• Common Core Curriculum Now Has Critics on the Left (NYT 2/16/14)
• For Some Elite Colleges, It's Advanced Placement vs. Gen-Ed (CHE 2/12/14)
• Improving Economic Diversity at the Better Colleges (NYT 2/5/14)
• The Latest Dangerous Education “Reform”: Tracking Students’ Data (Salon 1/30/14)
• Intensive Small-Group Tutoring and Counseling Helps Struggling Students (NYT 1/26/14)
• Lawsuit Takes on California Teachers' Job Protections (LAT 1/25/14)
• Child Care and Preschool in the Governor’s Proposed 2014-15 Budget (CA Budget Bites 1/22/14)
• Bracing for Demographic Shifts, Colleges Face Tough Trade-Offs (CHE 1/19/14)
• What a DC Fly on the Wall Probably Didn't Hear (UCLAFA 1/19/14)
• The White House Summit (IHE 1/15/14)
• Best Path to Growth? (THE 1/9/14)
• Common Core Close Reading Comes to California (EdWeek 1/8/14)

2013

• Exposing the Education “Reformers’” Big Lie (Salon 12/20/13)
• Teachers Seek to ‘Reclaim’ Education (FDL 12/14/13)
• California State Auditor Says Education Is at “High Risk” (AllGov 12/11/13)
• Tensions Rise as Indiana Schools Chief and Governor Clash Over New Agency (NYT 12/8/13)
• Professors in Deal to Design Online Lessons for A.P. Classes (NYT 12/5/13)
• What You Need to Know About the International Test Scores (Huff Po 12/3/13)
• College Admission Offers May Get Easier to Obtain (LAT 11/25/13)
• Texas Education Board Flags Biology Textbook Over Evolution Concerns (NYT 11/22/13)
• Texas OKs Controversial Environmental Science Textbook (Huff Po 11/22/13)
• The Obamas' New Focus (IHE 11/13/13)
• U.S. Reading and Math Scores Show Slight Gains (NYT 11/7/13)
• Rising to the Challenge: Why Greater Investment in K-12 Education Matters for California’s Students (CBP 10/13)
• "Mediocrity" V. "Cozy, Lucrative Monopoly": Rsp to NYTimes Critique of US Education (HASTAC 10/27/13)
• The Biggest Fallacy of the Common Core Standards (HuffPo 8/24/13)
• Surprise! Poverty and Inequality shapes K-12 school Achievement more than does "lazy teachers" (Salon 6/3/13)
• Teachers Against Educational Taylorism (Jacobin 4/13)
• How Helpful are Placement Tests (IHE 2/27/13)
• Flipping the K-12 Classroom (SacBee 2/19/13)
• Warning about the Dangers of the Testing Regime in K-12 (IHE 2/19/13)
• A High School Teacher Warns College Teachers About the Effects of K-12 "Reform" (WaPo 2/9/13)
• Thanks To Budget Cuts California Giving Up on Reducing K-12 Class Sizes (SacBee 1/20/13)

2011

• New School Year Brings Steep Cuts in State Funding for Schools (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 9/9/11)
• State aid to education down, down, down (Remapping Debate 9/7/11) 
• The "Shock Doctrine" comes to your neighborhood classroom (Salon 9/6/11) 
• In Texas Schools, Perry Shuns Federal Influence (NYT 9/3/11) 
• In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores (NYT 9/3/11)
• Education secretary says he feels ‘very badly’ for children in Texas schools (The Lookout 8/18/11)
• The crisis facing Britain's education system (Guardian 8/16/11)
• Edu-Traitor! Confessions of a Prof Who Believes Higher Ed Isn't the Only Goal (HASTAC 8/6/11)
• Michelle Rhee hires Democrat, continues working with Republicans (Salon 6/6/11) 
• Latest Budget Victim: Adult Education (Bay Citizen 5/30/11)
• A Time for Deeper Learning: Preparing Students for a Changing World (Alliance for Excellent Education 5/26/11)
• The Deep Pockets Behind Education Reform (Forbes 5/25/11)
• Behind Grass-Roots School Advocacy, Bill Gates (NYT 5/21/11) 
• Dennis Walcott is more of the same: Bloomberg's new chancellor once again lacks classroom experience (NYDaily News 4/8/11) 
• "I am sorry I am a teacher" (CarFamily 4/3/11)
• Today's teacher layoffs threaten tomorrow's college classrooms (LAT 4/3/11)
• California's Schools: Winning the Race to the Bottom (CBP 1/31/11)

2010

• California's Education Hypocrisy Index (Schrag, CPR 12/20/10)
• Union Busting as Educational Reform (HuffPo 12/20/10)
• Teacher-Led Schools Responding to Ed Crisis (HuffPo 11/13/10)
• Brown Faces Challenges with his Education Agenda (CA Watch 11/12/10)
• Are Teacher's Unions Losing Power? (LAT 11/7/10)
• NJ Governor Wants to End Teacher Tenure (NYT 9/29/10)
• "Value Added" Evaluation Spreads Among School Districts (NYT 9/1/10)
• School Districts May Delay Rehiring Teachers with Federal Money (NYT 8/18/10)
• Chicago Charter Schools Have Serious Deficit Problems (NYT 8/13/10)
• Obama Responds to Critics; Defends Neo-Liberal Agenda for Schools (NYT 7/29/10)
• California Becomes Finalist in Race to the Bottom (LAT 7/28/10)
• Washington D.C. Fires 241 Teachers Based on Student Standardized Test Results (NYT 7/24/10)
• To Fund Wars and the Race to the Top Arne Duncan is willing to cut Food Stamps (FDL 7/17/10)
• Does Anyone in Sacramento Actually Care About the Schools? (Schrag, CPR 7/16/10)
• California Near the Botton in Support for Schools (CBP 6/30/10)
• Obama's Neo-Liberal Plan for Public Ed (ISR 5/10)
• How Obama's School Reforms Hurt Schools (Diane Ravitch, The Nation 5/27/10)
• Businesses Need Good Schools to Survive (Calitics 5/25/10)
• Districts Cancelling Summer School Across the Nation (HuffPo 5/23/10)
• Texas Approves Right-Wing Curriculum (Huffpo 5/21/10)
• Teachers Face "Worst Job Market Since the Great Depression" (NYT 5/20/10)
• Hedge Funds and Charter Schools (NYT 5/10/10)
• New Jerseyans Vote to Destroy Public Schools (NYT 4/21/10)
• Killing Public Education (Boston.com 4/6/10)
• Arnold's Budget Cutting Schools Even More (CBP 3/30/10)
• Over 23,000 Pink Slips Sent to California Teachers (Calitics 3/15/10)
• The Race to the Bottom--Mass School Closures in Communities of Color (Calitics 3/9/10)
• Firing Teachers; Destroying Public Education (Calitics 3/9/10)
• CA Anti-Tax Revolts Dooming Public Schools (Guardian 3/5/10)
• K-12 Protesters See Through Arnold's Claims on Education Spending (CBP 3/4/10)
• California Spends Less on Each Student Than Any Other State (CBP 2/24/10)
• California Schools Face Mass Layoffs (Calitics 2/23/10)
• California Public Education Faces Funding Cliff (Calif Watch 2/10/10)
• With Stimulus Funds Running Out, States Face New Budget Crises (NYT 2/7/10)