by David Safier I just posted about how the country was hoodwinked into believing in the "Texas Miracle" in education and ended up with ex-Texas Governor Bush's version of No Child Left Behind and our obsession with testing. Toward the end of the post, I mentioned how Arizona is behing hoodwinked into believing in the … Read more
by David Safier This is one of the best lines about the "educational reform movement," Bush era and beyond, I have read: The singular feature of education reform in the 21st century is a willing suspension of disbelief. It's from a blog post by Diane Ravitch. She's talking about the "Texas miracle" which should have … Read more
by David Safier One of the signs Obama was becoming a sure thing in 2008 was the serial defections of moderate Republicans who said in a hundred different ways, "My party has left me." So what does it mean that a Forbes blog picked up the statement from Former Intel Chief Exec Craig Barrett that … Read more
by David Safier Jeanne Simons, an 8th grade teacher at Gateway Elementary wrote a terrific comment on what teaching is all about. It is a perfect rebuttal to anger-management-challenged Tony Hill (this man should never be allowed in the classroom given his abusive history with his wife and children) whose racist letter was read on … Read more
by David Safier The lawsuit trying to get rid of Arizona's tuition tax credits was thrown out by the U.S. Supreme Court, which said the people bringing the lawsuit had no standing. In other words, the content of the suit wasn't discussed. It was thrown out on a technicality, 5-4, with the usual gang of … Read more