by David Safier I've seen more TV ads for the University of Phoenix than I've seen . . . well, ever. Their graduates are all major success stories, according to the ads. And they're sponsoring MSNBC's Education Nation because they care so very, very much. Then again, I saw more ads for BP during the … Read more
by David Safier It's nice to see the Republic confirm what I've written here frequently: If you don't cherry-pick your charter schools, their student achievement is more-or-less the same as district schools. The occasion was a fact check of a statement made by Joe McCord, a governing board member of the Peoria Unified School District. … Read more
by David Safier Banned Books Week is here: September 24-October 1, celebrating noting the ignoble tradition of banning books, and, as the American Library Association puts it, "Celebrating the Freedom to Read." (Ever notice, no matter how quiet and mild mannered a librarian may be, how heated s/he gets when it comes to the topic … Read more
by David Safier I could easily begin and end this post with the following sentence: Rupert Murdoch will deliver the keynote address at the Jeb Bush's National Summit on Education Reform. What more needs to be said? And yet, I can't resist saying more. Jeb Bush's group is the Foundation for Excellence in Education. Its … Read more
by David Safier I've written before about Arizona's new and dangerous "empowerment savings accounts," which put money for children's education into individual "savings accounts" — a ploy Republican legislators hope will get around the problem vouchers have had in the courts. By my lights, it is the most dangerous incarnation I have seen of the … Read more