You may have seen the ad for this. Maybe you even received an invitation (but I bet you didn't). It's Camp Philos , "a philoso...

Listen, honey, I know it's all very confusing and there's a lot to take in. But don't worry your pretty little head about it. Le...

Race to the Top had been rather quiet as a brand until President Obama revived it in his new budget proposal. Unfortunately, the new iterati...

The world of reformy stuff has altered my life; specifically, it has changed my daily routine. In the morning before school, I read. At lunc...

In the midst of show weekend with my students here in PA, it was interesting to try to follow the Network for Public Education Conference in...

If not the CCSS, then what? This refrain comes back and back and back again, echoing this morning over the interwebs all the way from the ...

In yesterday's New York Times, Suzanne Mettler provided one more explanation of why school choice doesn't-- and won't-- work. ...

I have a simple question for Dennis Van Roekel. Would you please list five points on which you disagree with Arne Duncan and the USDOE? ...

On Monday, February 23, Arne Duncan laid down some speaks on the National Governor's Association Winter Meeting. His prepared remarks t...

Why shouldn't Bill Gates spend his money terraforming the education landscape? Why shouldn't rich guys use their power and influence...

One of the most recent ed-issues du jour is Pre-K. There's a great deal of political and public support for earlier childhood education ...

There's a new coalition in the ed world, one that you should be hearing more about. Here's the meat from their first press release:...

Dennis Van Roekel today let loose on the NEA Today website with what represents a big set of admissions for him , and what for many of us w...

Status quo. The Masters of Reforming Our Nation's Schools keep railing about the status quo. The current crisis in education requires ...

There's a strikingly odd generational irony that underlies the world of reformy stuff. The architects of this wave of top-down, rigidl...

A story out of Pittsburgh Sunday and subsequently picked up by the AP highlights the growing problem with the growing number of children dia...

There are many many many many MANY reasons that top down reformatorium programs are a bad idea. But lets just focus on one for a moment. Y...

Rep. George Miller is a forty-year veteran of Congress, has been ranking Democrat on the education committee, and was tagged by the National...

Peter DeWitt ran a column last week on NBC's Education Nation advertising site leaping off from the question of how to chart a course th...