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Dear Readers, I have made it much easier to post responses and comments. Simply scroll down to the end of a post, click the comments link, a...

Here is a pretty good critique of the infomercial, Waiting for Superman .

According to anti-teacher pundits and demagogues, teachers unions are bad for students because collective bargaining agreements protect bad ...

This was sent to me by our CTA state representative: CalSTRS has approximately 850,000 members. 71% of the CalSTRS members are women. 2009 d...

On August 2, the California Board of Education approved Common Core Standards (CCS), aligning our standards with 33 other states. The vote...

A funny, scary 'education' conversation , posted by Valerie Strauss, at WaPo.

Letter submitted to the S.F. Chron. and Parade No wonder people buy into the current anti-teacher mass hysteria! On Sunday, Parade uncritica...

Massachusetts teachers in the King Phillip Regional School District, Norfolk County, are protesting a contract dispute with their district o...

“Waiting for Superman,” (WFS) the new education documentary by Davis Guggenheim, the director of “An Inconvenient Truth,” claims that public...

Check out, " The Myth of the Bad Teacher ," By Adam Bessie, in Truth Out. This op ed discusses how teachers have become the latest...