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Walmart "Associates" and Charter School "Scholars"
The Gates Team out in Washington are trying to scare up some media attention on a “study” bought by the charter reform school industry that purportedly shows that charters, long known to exclude...
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Katie Osgood: The Lowest Expectation of Them All
Corporate education reformers love to rave about how schools that “beat the odds” are full of teachers with “high expectations”. There are echoes of George W’s “soft bigotry of low expectations” in...
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Communities of color have been decimated by corporate reform. Now anger...
Robin Lake of Seattle writes: As the director of an education think tank focused on national issues, it feels indulgent to write about my own kids’ experiences in the public school system. But there’s...
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The Privatization of Special Education
Like so much else in education and beyond, we are seeing the familiar pattern of defunding, claiming crisis, and then calling for privatization in special education. This past week in Chicago, our...
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It is a “dumping ground”
Witness the conclusion of a brawl to end all brawls inside a Behavioral and Emotional Support (BES) classroom, which resulted in a student colliding into and breaking a reinforced window. Two schools...
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