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Ben Studebaker is a graduate student working toward a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Cambridge. He recently published a blog post sharing his take on Teach For America, a topic which is far outside his wheelhouse and it shows. You can read his skewed take on TFA with my corrections below… Teach […] More
Last month, the NAACP held a hearing in New Orleans focused on charter schools. It was the sixth of seven hearings the organization has hosted in cities across the country following their controversial call for a moratorium on charter school expansion last fall. Led by the NAACP’s National Task Force for Quality Education, these meetings […] More
Jeffrey Anderson covers local D.C. Politics and government for the District’s weekly alternative rag, the Washington City Paper. Anderson recently published a slanted attack on Democrats For Education Reform (DFER) over the organization’s efforts to convince D.C.’s school board to adopt a strong accountability plan in line with the requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act. In […] More
It’s almost comical how people outside of New Orleans – including the folks who pay him to write his weekly column in the Hechinger Report – can take Andre Perry seriously, when so many people here in the Big Easy don’t. Why? Because the things he says and writes are all provocation and no substance. […] More
This has been a long time coming… If you have ever read an article about education in the Louisiana Weekly, the oldest African-American newspaper in New Orleans, you probably noticed a few things: It is the least factual and most anecdotal piece anyone has ever tried to pass off as journalism; It is written from […] More
The evidence seems to indicate that Andre Perry is being paid by the teachers unions (AFT perhaps?) because the former charter management CEO is now unapologetically bashing charter schools. His latest piece in the Hechinger Report unpersuasively argues that the Black Lives Matter Movement needs to take on charters because they are undermining black communities. […] More
Education commentator Andre Perry recently took to the pages of the Hechinger Report to attack Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) for opposing a series of last-minute changes made to the K-12 education policy section of the Democratic Party platform. Not only does Perry’s rambling essay reveal a lack of understanding about how the party platform was developed, but […] More
Jan Resseger is a former chair of the National Council of Churches Committee on Public Education and previously worked for the United Church of Christ. She has published several error-filled blog posts on New Orleans’ school reforms over the years, often rehashing the misinformation of reform critics like Mercedes Schneider, Mike Deshotels, and Kristen Buras. […] More
Peter Moskowitz, a contributing writer at Vice, recently wrote an article about school reform efforts in New Orleans. It’s easily one of the more biased, sloppy, and in some aspects, flat-out incorrect takes on public education in the Big Easy that’s been written in some time. While critics of the city’s reforms are given ample […] More
Gregory Thompson is an attorney and board member of Audubon Charter School, a selective-admissions Orleans Parish School Board school that is opposed to a new funding formula being considered for New Orleans’ public schools. He wrote a misleading (and flat-out wrong, in many places) op-ed in the Times-Picayune criticizing the funding formula, which I have corrected. Click […] More
Erik Loomis, an assistant professor of history at the University of Rhode Island, recently published a review of former Tulane University president Scott Cowen’s recent book, The Inevitable City: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and 10 Principles of Crisis Leadership, in the Boston Review. In it, Loomis, who apparently has little understanding of the post-Katrina New […] More
Alan Husby is a Minneapolis public school teacher and member of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, who recently responded to an op-ed in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune written by my friend and fellow reformer, Lynnell Mickelson. In his response, Husby attacks Mickelson’s positions and trots out many well-worn and unconvincing teachers union talking points. Read my […] More
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