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Patricia Schaefer is a corporate communications strategist and philanthropic advisor who recently wrote a piece attacking Teach For America in the pages of Non-Profit Quarterly. Click the link below to see to read a Genius-annotated version of her piece. Genius-annotated version of “After 25 Years, Teach for America Results are Consistently Underwhelming” More

Walt Gardner taught in Los Angeles Unified School District for 28 years and was a lecturer at UCLA Graduate School of Education. Given this description perhaps it’s not surprising that he takes a decidedly anti-reform perspective on the blog – Walt Gardner’s Reality Check – he writes for Education Week. Below is a Genius-annotated version of […] More

J. Celeste Lay is an associate professor of political science at Tulane University focused on American politics and public policy. Although she has no formal relationship with the public school system and has not been involved in New Orleans public schools, Lay has been an outspoken – if infrequent – critic of the education reforms […] More

Jennifer Berkshire – a.k.a., Edushyster – is a Massachusetts-based writer and former newspaper editor for the American Federation of Teachers. In the past year, she has focused her anti-education reform criticism on the transformation of public schools in New Orleans. Click on the link below to read my critique of a piece she wrote in Salon in the […] More

J. Celeste Lay is an associate professor of political science at Tulane University focused on American politics and public policy. Although she has no formal relationship with the public school system and has not been involved in New Orleans public schools, Lay has been an outspoken – if infrequent – critic of the education reforms […] More

Mercedes Schneider is an English teacher at Slidell High School in St. Tammany Parish on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain. In recent years, she has emerged as a prolific and vitriolic anti-education reform blogger. Her favorite targets for abuse are the Recovery School District and Common Core. As a result, Mercedes has become a favorite of […] More

Georgia State University education professor, Kristen Buras, has tried to make a name for herself in academic circles by bashing the transformation of New Orleans’ public school system since Hurricane Katrina. I fact-checked a error-ridden piece she wrote for The Progressive back in January – click the link below to read the critique. Fact-Checking Kristen Buras’ Flood […] More

In June 2014, UFT published an article written by Micah Landau attacking New Orleans’ public schools in New York Teacher, the official magazine of the United Federation of Teachers. UFT represents over 200,000 educators in New York City’s public school system and, of course, is an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers. Click the link below to […] More