The movement to reform the American education system is realizing the opposite of what it intends to do, Diane Ravitch, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education from 1991-93 and New York ...

The education reform movement that started with George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law is dead. It died because every strategy it imposed on the nation’s schools has failed. From Bush’s No Child ...

When Michelle Rhee, ex-Superintendent of D.C. schools and serial prevaricator (which is a much nicer word than “liar”), decided to leave Students First, the education reform/privatization group she ...

School privatization efforts are making dangerous advances in states like Florida and Arizona. Neoliberal education reforms that have degraded public schools, from high-stakes testing to corporatized ...

Mourners gathered to honor the life of Norman Fruchter, a civil rights activist and member of the Education Reform Movement, after he was struck and killed by a reckless driver in Bay Ridge on Jan. 4.

Despite all the headlines about parents’ appetite for school choice programs, little has been reported about what this means for teachers. For instance, in several states such as Florida and Arizona, ...

For three years, D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee promoted the notion that education reform could happen only if she was totally in charge and everything was done her way. It was her way — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several years ago, fresh from my South Bronx fifth-grade classroom and still feeling my way through the unfamiliar world of public ...

Businesses can no longer afford to be passive observers in education reform. The future of our workforce — and our economy — depends on deeper, more intentional collaboration between education and ...