Bill de Blasio’s Schools Chancellor is Leaving: Who will Restore the Joy to Early Ed?

Not long before New York City’s public schools closed for winter break, Katie Lapham posted to Twitter a drab black-and-white photograph of a testing manual she had found in her mailbox, the imprimatur of Carmen Fariña in the upper left-hand corner. An elementary school teacher and long-time critic of education …

Elusive Worthy Wages in de Blasio’s Tale of Two Cities

“Millions of workers have gotten a raise!” the Economic Policy Institute exulted in an email on Sunday. Income growth in 2015 merited the adjective “superb,”  with the fastest gains among black and Hispanic workers. Yet the early childhood workforce was nowhere to be found. The stewards of our human capital …