I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity...
Racial segregation has come back to public edu...
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially...
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think...
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simpl...
'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I h...
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive;...
Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School...
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the prob...
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victor...
No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last...
