What Ever Happened To Rebecca Friedrichs? You remember Rebecca Friedrichs. She was the face of the union-busting lawsuit of 2014 . Supreme Court Justice Alito signaled that he was re...

The 1776 Unites Curriculum Isn't So Great During Dear Leader's call for more patrio-centric re-education, he referenced and Betsy DeVos praised the 1776 Unites project as an exa...

Trump's Education Agenda Trump has released his agenda for his second term , and it's special. Cut taxes. Add jobs. Eradicate Covid-19. End reliance on China. Co...

The Biden Education Red Flags Before I get started here, let me be clear about one thing--it is almost impossible to imagine a candidate worse for public education than D...

How Bad Is This Gates-Funded Essay Cyber-Scorer? This Bad. Software that can grade an essay is the great white whale of automating education. If software could actually score an essay effectively, da...

A Seventh Grader Kicks Edgenuity's Dumb Robograding Butt The story comes to us from Francesca Paris at NPR's Here and Now , and it can serve as our sixty-gazillionth reminder that computer algo...

Time To Deal With The Substitute Shortage This is not the biggest issue facing schools right now-- but it's not nothing. And in some districts, it's about to become a critica...

School Choice Is Not For Those People Choice fans promote the idea as one the provides each family with the school of their dreams. Everyone, declares Betsy DeVos, should have a...

Check Out "On Teaching" At The Atlantic I've been poking through the thirty-three articles posted by The Atlantic as part of their On Teaching series , and it requires a little...