The Power of Their Voices: Early Childhood Teachers Talk School Reform

A former preschool teacher carried the torch for democracy at the confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education. “The Senate should not be a rubber stamp,” Patty Murray said.  “We owe it to the American people to put families and children first, not billionaires.” Those …

Test Nation II: NYC Opts Out

“April is the cruelest month,” T.S. Eliot wrote in the opening canto of The Waste Land.   The month in which America celebrates child abuse prevention. Each spring, the English Language Arts,  math, and science tests arrive, New York City’s third- to eighth-grade public school students busily filling in bubbles.  As …