
The Fundamental Challenge To Public Education and School Choice
There has always been an obstacle to public education in this country.
Curmudgucation NPE Rates States for Support of Their Public Schools: 17 States Get an F! How Did Your State Rank?
https://dianeravitch.net/2026/06/15/npe-rates-states-for-their-support-of-their-public-schools/ via @dianeravitch
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NPE Rates States for Support of Their Public Schools: 17 States Get an F! How Did Your State Rank?
The Network for Public Education, which I co-founded with science teacher Anthony Cody in 2012-2013, supports the improvement of public schools and opposes privatization of public funding for schoo…
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ICYMI: Counterclockwise Edition (6/14)
Several decades ago, my brother and I played in a strolling dixieland band at Conneaut Lake Park, a delightful small amusement park that has since fallen on difficult times, and one of the things we noticed at the time was that small children would “dance” to our music by running in little counterclockwise circles.
Curmudgucation LIFTing Kids Higher - The heartwarming story of a retired teacher adventures volunteering for an after middle-school day events.
https://teacherinastrangeland.blog/2026/06/11/lifting-kids-higher/ via @nancyflanagan
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LIFTing Kids Higher
I am a volunteer in a homegrown program to support middle and high school students in my (small, rural) county. Entitled LIFT—Leelanau Investing for Teens—it’s a program designed to give middle sch…
Teacher in a strange land
Fordham Institute Almost Figures Out Testing
When someone from the other side of debate announces that they Get It finally, you can find yourself torn between reactions.
Curmudgucation SAT and ACT college readiness testing are a waste of money, less predictive of college grades and graduation rates than high school GPAs.
https://tultican.com/2026/06/09/act-and-sat-sophist-wastes/ #EducationMatters
ACT and SAT – Sophist Wastes
By Thomas Ultican 6/9/2026 STEM educators at the University of California (UC) are calling for re-implementing standardized testing for enrollment. This move would be great for the people cashing i…
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Mike Miles Is Ruining Some of Houston’s Best Schools
Texas State Commissioner Mike Morath took control of the Houston Independent School District in 2023. Morath fired the respected superintendent, replaced the elected board with an appointed board, …
Diane Ravitch's blogOhio Legislature Keeps Advancing School Reforms that Don't Work but Fails to Fund the Public Schools - Why Not Just Do What the Ohio Constitution Requires and Fully Fund the Public Schools?
https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/ohio-legislature-keeps-trying-school-reforms-that-dont-work-but-fails-to-fund-the-public-schools/ via @janresseger
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Ohio Legislature Keeps Advancing School Reforms that Don’t Work but Fails to Fund the Public Schools
Congress passed the nation’s enormous public education law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, in 1965 as the centerpiece of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. The goal…
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Google's Classroom AI Rage Bait
Nobody likes to train teachers like Google, who, like tobacco companies, understand that if you can lock those customers in while they’re young, you’ll get to keep them for life.
Curmudgucation Tied Up in Knots - Pundits and education reform advocates who are desperate to get the Obama-era school fixing, teacher bashing band back together are barking up the wrong tree.
https://open.substack.com/pub/educationwars/p/tied-up-in-knots?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #EducationMatters
Tied Up in Knots
For the 'reform' wing of the Democratic Party, education is a knotty business
The Education Wars