Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Newsweek reports that the George W. Bush administration “lost” 22 million emails covering a time of crucial decisions about the war in Iraq. “For 18 months, Republican strategists, political pundits, reporters and Americans who follow them have been pursuing Hillary Clinton’s personal email habits, and no evidence of… Read more

Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: The one issue that should be on every parents mind and the presidential candidates is what’s known as the alleged “school to prison” pipeline, and how to deal with this issue instead of making it worse. While Hillary Clinton has a long, committed record advocating for… Read more

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jonathan Pelto reports on the big money that will flow into the Massachusetts referendum on expanding charters. Most of it will flow from the coffers of hedge fund managers, who never showed any prior interest in improving public schools but get excited by the opportunity to privatize them.… Read more

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: http://childrenaremorethantestscores.blogspot.com/2016/09/who-decides.html?m=1 Jesse Turner is known as “the walking man.” He walked from Connecticut to D.C. inn 2010 to protest the overuse of mandated testing and its negative effects on children. He did it again in 2015. His blog is called “children are more than test scores.” This is… Read more