Perdido Street School

From the "We caused it - now we're trying to walk it back without really walking it back" file: Faced with mounting and b...

Mike Mulgrew and his Unity caucus speak for all parents: Mike Schirtzer rises, raises motion for next month on behalf of MORE, to suppor...

Secretary of Education Privatization Arne Duncan plans to "draw a line in the sand" in a speech calling for a NCLB revision, deman...

Obama looks to lock in Common Core, high stakes testing and teacher evaluations tied to test scores long past the sunset on the Obama admini...

A Republican-controlled House and Senate is almost certain to try and dump the Obama education agenda, including Race to the Top and the sch...

Here's why I am supporting Howie Hawkins for governor in next month's election: ALBANY—Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie ...

Buried at the bottom of an Alyson Klein piece on the movement to cut back federal madates on testing in schools is this: Recently, former...

A commenter points out a core contradiction in Governor Cuomo's assertion that his APPR teacher evaluation system needs to be redone to ...

Yesterday I posted that I was hoping that Jeb Bush would run for president in 2016 because I thought he would get hammered over Common Core...

It's a mess out there: The idea seems simple enough: Identify the best teachers and reward them. Pinpoint the worst and fire them. ...

Yesterday I posted that it seemed ironic Arne Duncan was now giving states flexibility around testing and teacher evaluations since his DOE...

Back in June: New York might lose out on $300 million if last-minute negotiations on teacher and principal evaluations untie Common Cor...

Imagine a story on Common Core a year ago and ask yourself, would the tone have been this skeptical? Common Core was created in 2009 and ...

From the DN weekend news round-up: With his two daughters in tow, President Obama visited popular D.C. bookstore “Politics and Prose” Sa...

This is from the Morning Education email from Politico: Although Education Secretary Arne Duncan couldn't attend MSNBC's Educatio...

Lisa Fleischer at the Wall Street Journal: The next New York City mayor will take control of the nation’s largest school system. But don...

From the Times: Signaling a preference for a much smaller role for the federal government in public schooling, Senator Lamar Alexander,...

If Race to the Top was NCLB Jr., the latest proposal put forth by Tom Harkin in the Senate at the behest of the Obama administration is NCLB...

From Politico: No contemporary American politician has benefited more from the power of good storytelling than Barack Obama. He vaulted f...

Tom Harkin doing the bidding of Barack Obama and Arne Duncan: Until recently, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the chairman of the Senate e...