by David Safier As a teacher and good union man for my 30-plus year tenure, the one thing that always made me wince was when the union went to the mat to save the jobs of teachers who were, in a word, lousy. The union always said it was protecting those teachers so the rest … Read more
by David Safier From Steve Gall: The TUSD Governing Board passed an elementary school recess mandate starting in the Fall, 2011 at their Special Meeting last night with an unanimous vote, 5-0. It's for a minimum of 60 minutes /week and 3 days/week of structured physical activity. We wanted more minutes/week but it's a start … Read more
by David Safier Diane Ravitch, one of our most important voices in education, who was in Tucson Wednesday, has written a blog post (Yes! She's a blogger!), I Stand With the Teachers of Wisconsin. The piece is thoughtful and measured, as is all of her work. She is a thinker and a scholar who tries … Read more
by David Safier The National Education Policy Center is onto Matthew Ladner, big time. A month or so back, it tore into his Heritage Foundation report praising the "Florida Education Miracle." If you've been reading BfA for awhile, you know what a load of cherry-picked propagandizing Ladner's "research" on Florida education is. Now, NEPC says … Read more
by David Safier I doubt "Even Robert Robb" will become a running feature on BfA, though I would love to see it happen, but . . . Even Robert Robb thinks Brewer and Horne are hypocrites and idiots with their countersuit of the feds over immigration. Robb is a Republic columnist of the conservative persuasion … Read more