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Many others should apologize as well, starting with everyone who made DC the poster child for 'school reform.' Arne Duncan heads the list, along with lots of pundits like Tom Toch, Rick Hess and ...

https://dropoutnation.net/2018/01/30/the-children-of-d-c-suffer/comment-page-1/#comment-191663

Typical grist from the anti-public education crowd. No one these days seems to care about those children who got left behind or who aren't apparently one of the "every students" in the latest bil...

https://dropoutnation.net/2017/11/30/neas-151-million-influence-spree/comment-page-1/#comment-191487

Can you write more about Baker? Would he keep reformy members of the state board (Finn, Steiner, Smarick?). Would he stand up to msea? Hard to imagine an elected dem doing that- but would like to...

https://dropoutnation.net/2017/11/10/are-reformers-ready/comment-page-1/#comment-191392

This is too bad, since America's problems in education will not be significantly improved without change at the federal level, since the last administration's most important legacy, the "Every St...

https://dropoutnation.net/2017/07/28/school-reforms-trump-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-191183

I transferred my DC from a top public school to Success Academy because his kindergarten teacher at the public school yelled at kids on a daily basis and took away kids' snack time because one ch...

https://dropoutnation.net/2016/02/16/success-academy-merits-no-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-186589

Spot on.

https://dropoutnation.net/2016/02/16/success-academy-merits-no-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-186583

In Singapore, the worker class people are not citizens, and so they cannot attend Singapore schools. If we excluded all working class people from the PISA, we would score better than we do. In 19...

https://dropoutnation.net/2015/11/05/you-cant-spin-school-funding/comment-page-1/#comment-186444

I am an M.D./ PhD physician scientist graduate of the University of Chicago as well as former staff member at the University of Chicago currently directing a diabetes center in Indiana and it is ...

https://dropoutnation.net/2015/10/28/where-the-progress-isnt/comment-page-1/#comment-186382

First, my child's data belongs to me, particularly personally identifiable data, as the parent/guardian of my minor child. Second, FERPA was unconstitutionally altered by the Obama Administration...

https://dropoutnation.net/2015/10/29/beyond-ferpa-student-data-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-186348

Rishawn - Another thing you should know about Illinois' teacher unions is that when teachers become union leaders, like Dan Montgomery (IFT) and Karen Lewis (CTU) did, they are still eligible for...

https://dropoutnation.net/2015/10/14/aft-goes-big-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-185612