In a John White valedictory piece , he's called "a former English teacher in New Jersey." I have twice this week come across ...

Teach for America continues to take shellacking from people who think to ask questions like "How do you prepare someone to be a teacher...

Some reading from this week in the edusphere. 13 Years of Dress Rehearsal Chris Thinnes ran a back-to-school parent's night speech b...

I'm about a week behind on this, mostly because I don't usually pay any attention to conservative rantist Michelle Malkin. Yes, she ...

We have discussed the evolution of Teach for America before. Its ever-changing business plan mission has been a work in progress through sev...

When we're talking about the kind of hedge-fund managing, faux-Democrat, rich fat cat, anti-public ed reformsters who are driving much o...

Even if you've only read this blog once or twice, you're aware that I am a noisy supporter of traditional public education in this c...

The Center for American Progress got another quick lesson in How the Internet Works. In their haste to prove that beginning teachers are sti...

Arne Duncan's new policy initiative is a perfect example of the law of unintended consequences in action. Duncan proposes that teacher...

Teach Plus, yet another arm of the Gates-funded reformy octopus, is a fan of several fictions. They believe that test scores measure teache...

Valerie Strauss reports an exchange between the TFA mother ship and members of the Harvard chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops. S...

First in USA Today , and a few days later, a bit more expansively in the Hechinger Report , Richard Whitmire argues for the embrace of chart...

People looking to get a job at Google might first want to spend a few years as a teacher. That is the lede for what appears to be a seriou...

Dear Allegheny College: I was reading your latest alumni email with its nice batch of "Hey, you're great" quotes. It was ni...

TNTP, the Reimagine Teaching people and generators of plenty of fancy-looking reformy nonsense, have some more ideas for the post-Vergara wo...

Teach for America is nothing if not flexible. In the oft-told tale, TFA was a targeted response to a specific problem-- inner-city schools...