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Joel Klein

In NYC, Rhetoric vs. Reality

Eric Lerum | Posted 05.23.2013 | New York
Eric Lerum

There is still much work to be done -- but there is no doubt the city's education system is on a better path because of the leadership of the past decade. Students and families in New York City -- and everywhere -- deserve a real debate on the issues.

Can We Move Past Market-oriented "Reforms" to Policies That Actually Work?

Elaine Weiss | Posted 04.22.2013 | DC
Elaine Weiss

Instead of results, we have gotten rhetoric, and our children have fallen further behind. It is time we adopt policy solutions that match the depth and complexity of the problems and address them head on.

Rupert Murdoch's Education Subsidiary Does Not 'In Any Way Endorse' Donkey Sex

Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.08.2013 | Media
Joy Resmovits

On Slashdot, user "theodp" ran a Google cache search of Amplify, Rupert Murdoch's education subsidiary. The results, as theodp put it? "Obscene."

Steve Zimmer Defeats the Billionaire Boys Club With a Cost-Effective School Board Campaign

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.08.2013 | Los Angeles
Peter Dreier

The Zimmer-Anderson school board race attracted national attention because it was seen as a test of the effort by corporate power-brokers to run schools like businesses, a strategy that they and the media misleadingly call "school reform."

Higher Tech Meets Higher Ed

Robin Raskin | Posted 02.22.2013 | Technology
Robin Raskin

Silicon Valley thrives on disruption; academia thrives on tradition. That's a recipe for tension.

Outside Cash Floods New Orleans School Board Race

Education Week, Bethesda, Md. | Lesli A. Maxwell | Posted 12.31.2012 | Home

In New Orleans, where 80 percent of students attend charter schools that are not overseen by an elected board, the race for a local school board seat ...

Joy Resmovits

After Strike, Chicago Makes Sense Of Its Schools

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.11.2012 | Home

CHICAGO -- Every Sunday, CEO of Chicago Public Schools Jean-Claude Brizard takes his 2-year-old son to breakfast. It's a "sacred" ritual, Brizard emph...

Shameless Shape Shifters

Gary Stager | Posted 11.27.2012 | Home
Gary Stager

My journalism has set out to expose the ideologues and profiteers engaged in dismantling the democratic ideals of public education. And yet, I just got hoodwinked by Joel Klein and the Rupert Murdoch-owned company he leads.

Chris Kirkham

Chicago Teachers Strike Shows Teacher Accountability At Charters Differs From Union-Contract Schools

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 09.24.2012 | Home

At the heart of the Chicago teachers strike, a historic rift that left 350,000 students in limbo for more than a week, was a question that school syst...

The Real Reason America's Schools Stink

Businessweek | Charles Kenny | Posted 10.20.2012 | Home

Over the next few weeks, millions of American schoolchildren will return to the classroom from summer vacation, and not a moment too soon. Compared to...

Joel Klein Touts News Corp. Tablet Computer Ed Venture

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 10.13.2012 | Home

NEW YORK — Former New York City schools chief Joel Klein left to run News Corp.'s education division but spent much of the past year defending b...

Joel Klein Steps Down From News Corp.'s Internal Hacking Investigation

Reuters | Posted 08.18.2012 | Media

June 18 (Reuters) - News Corp's Management and Standards Committee, which is investigating the aftermath of the media conglomerate's phone hacking s...

Joy Resmovits

Will Education Be A Decisive Election Issue In 2012?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.04.2012 | Home

After a presidential primary campaign so far largely devoid of debate on education, the topic could be a decisive one in 2012, according to a new surv...

Joy Resmovits

Policy Leaders: National Security, Prosperity At Risk By Way Of Current School System

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.20.2012 | Home

Thirty years ago, a Reagan administration report warned of "a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people." The ...

Joy Resmovits

Education Absent From The Election

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.06.2012 | Home

It's Super Tuesday, and Ohio kindergarten teacher Nicole Kessler is frustrated. Budget cuts turned her life upside down this year: To save money on bu...

The Promise of Education Technology (It's Not Just About Lighter Backpacks)

Joel I. Klein | Posted 04.04.2012 | Home
Joel I. Klein

The Obama Administration's push for digital textbooks, while useful, represents only initial steps on the proverbial thousand mile journey.

Who's the Real Chicken?

Len Levitt | Posted 03.18.2012 | New York
Len Levitt

Rupert Murdoch may have called Gov. Cuomo "chicken" for refusing to take on the city's teacher's union. But judging from his latest State of the City address, Mayor Bloomberg sounds like the real chicken for refusing to take on Ray Kelly.

The Global Search for Education: A Look at New York Public Schools

C. M. Rubin | Posted 03.18.2012 | Home
C. M. Rubin

"You can still walk into a kindergarten class in New York City on the first day of school, and simply on the basis of race and how kids are dressed, predict with frightening accuracy which kids are likely to graduate 13 years later."

Education and the 2012 Election

Gaston Caperton | Posted 01.04.2012 | Home
Gaston Caperton

For decades, Americans have been searching for The Education President. Unfortunately, every four years it seems like a new issue comes along that pushes education to the back burner (the economy, terrorism, healthcare).

Joy Resmovits

At News Corp. Forum, Four GOP Hopefuls Outline Education Platforms

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.09.2012 | Home

NEW YORK -- The desire for a lighter federal hand in the nation's schools ruled the discussions at an education forum Thursday night with four of the ...

New York Leaps Into the Middle School Trap

Peter Meyer | Posted 11.26.2011 | Home
Peter Meyer

What was so odd about Dennis Walcott's announcement that NYC was opening 50 new middle schools is that the most recent research suggesting that a middle school grade configuration is probably not the way to go was done in his city.

The Obama Paradox

John Thompson | Posted 10.15.2011 | Home
John Thompson

Unlike many in the Tea Party, President Obama does not want to privatize schools. But, the president has essentially privatized educational policy.

The Real "S and T" Crisis

Dr. Michael J. Feuer | Posted 10.09.2011 | Home
Dr. Michael J. Feuer

If we have an "S & T" crisis, then, it is less about science and technology than about the substance and tone of our political discourse.

Joy Resmovits

Union Letter: Murdoch's Company Should Not Have Access To Student Data

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.05.2011 | Home

NEW YORK -- New York should drop a $27 million contract with Wireless Generation, a Rupert Murdoch-owned student data tracking company, in light of Ne...

Suffer Little Children

Henry J. Stern | Posted 09.26.2011 | New York
Henry J. Stern

John B. Mattingly is retiring as commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) after seven years in the trenches. At the age of 66,...