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The "accountability movement" goes to college! AUSTIN — Eight years ago, leaders of the University of Texas set out to measure som...

When did the New York State Education Department start to paramilitarize? NYSED announces that creation of a high level "Test Security ...

Nothing like one of their own exposing them in public for being the crooks they are: Until early Wednesday morning, Greg Smith was a largely...

One of the few positive stories about teachers in the press these days: Brooklyn teacher Cassandra Byrd-Scolaro can offer help in reading, w...

One of the buzzwords in education these days is "accountability." Mayor Bloomberg loves to hold other people accountable for their...

UPDATE - 7:39 PM: The below quote has been pulled from the Daily News link. It had been there as of 4:14 PM when I blogged this. It would...

Just in case you're a teacher and still think Democrats in this state are, you know, supportive of you: ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo took to the ...

Here. He should be fired as NYSED Commissioner. He won't be, of course, because he is just the kind of corporate reform-friendly shill t...

Monday morning scary story: They traded thoughts about education, ruminated on the state of immigration and discussed the federal deficit. B...

Three fair jobs reports have the Obama people doing high fives over the economy. No high fives here, however: Bankruptcy lawyers have a frig...

See if you see any connection between this Seedco corruption story and how Bloomberg runs the school system: City investigators have discove...

Governor 1% has a new website up called NYStudentsFirst that tracks the districts in NY State that have come to an agreement with their loc...

The Bloomberg scandals just keep mounting: One of New York’s largest nonprofit job placement agencies falsely claimed to have helped find jo...

Already happening in North Carolina: More ammunition for foes of high-stakes testing has come in the form of a survey of North Carolina teac...

Fire up a colortini and watch the pictures as they fly through the air: WASHINGTON — Earth’s magnetic field is about to be shaken like a sno...

The Mayor of Reductionism evaluates schools, teachers, and restaurants using letter grades - but the restaurants are starting to fight back...

Went up this afternoon at the Daily News: City officials are determined to replace roughly half the staff at 33 schools that will be shutter...

The NY Times runs a story today that says black students, particularly boys, receive harsher discipline in public schools, than students of ...

Looks like the Obama Campaign, er, Obama White House wants to avoid ugly video of people protesting the G-8 in Chicago: In a surprise turnar...

From The Guardian: It's strange that at this week's World Economic Forum the designated voice of the world's poor has be...