For a hot minute, it looked like Pennsylvania Democrats would stand up for public education. But no. Josh Shapiro continues to support the n...

For somewhere approaching thirty years, my small town marks the holiday season with a rendering of (portions of) Handel's Messiah. It...

Economist  Milton Friedman 's vision for education in the U.S. has guided many of the reformsters and privatizers of the past few decade...

In the wake of the Ziegler "sex scandal," there are plenty of calls for Bridget Ziegler, long-time Florida right-wing operative, t...

There's some new research out, and for whatever reason, folks like Jay Mathews insist on framing it as a victory for grade retention . I...

High in the upper fifties, cloudy and overcast--this is my idea of a perfect spring day, so it's unexpected for a weekend in December, b...

While the blue wave may have swept plenty of conservative majorities out of school boards across the country, it didn't touch the Penncr...