The tone deafness at City Hall
Yeah, so the Mayor was on TV last night showing off a side I’ve never understood, liked, or can even remotely fathom. You know that side. That’s the side that emerges when a complete cluster$%*! has...
View ArticleJoin Helen Gym and Education Nation on teaching sustainability
Update: You can pick up the panel at the 21:00 mark where we tackle merit pay, TFA, and how to build sustainable teaching careers.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the...
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Best and Worst Education Moments of 2011
Last year I named Arlene Ackerman – and her penchant for making any and all news all about her – as my number one choice for the Top 10 education story of the year. Indeed, Dr. Ackerman did not fail to...
View ArticleSchool District can't afford to leave democracy behind
(This post has been updated to remain consistent with my posting at the Notebook.)Yesterday’s move by the School Reform Commission to hire a Chief Recovery Officer who will be advised by an "outside...
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The hypocrisy of Stu Bykofsky
As folks know, many of us here at YPP have taken on Stu Bykofsky’s gag-inducing need to publish his fascination with sex tourism in Thailand. Dan, Brendan, Jennifer, myself and others have posted on it...
View ArticleBuzz Bissinger spouts off on race and Jeremy Lin - and we all cringe
I get it. There are plenty of people who don’t like the Knicks, are sick of two weeks of Linsanity and consider the Jeremy Lin hype to be premature and therefore overrated. And then there’s Buzz...
View ArticleYou're not speaking to me, Mr. Knudsen
It's election day. Vote! But let's remember we vote for the key issues we care about. Top of the list is the bomb out of 440 that the District faces a billion dollar cumulative deficit by 2017, will...
View ArticleA face of Philly ed reform likes the womenfolk silent and tending to the...
If there's any question about the intent behind the people driving Philadelphia's current wave of education reform, look no further than this galling op-ed by Mark Gleason, executive director of the...
View ArticleMayor Nutter forgot the meaning of "public" in public ed
It probably wouldn’t surprise you to hear a Pennsylvania politician questioning the very definition and premise of public education. It may surprise you that Philadelphia’s leading Democrat is on...
View ArticleThe new "philanthropy": Private money shaping public policy in Philadelphia's...
Jeremy Nowak is out as president of the William Penn Foundation. In light of his abrupt departure, deeper questions emerge about the role the foundation played under his tenure.For months, Parents...
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