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Today’s news includes an unsurprising critique of Gov. Walker by school principals, a moderately surprising critique of Clinton’s college debt relief plan, and a never-seen-this-before instance in which GAO employees are accused of defrauding the government of over $11,000 each by faking eligibility for school lunch price reductions: Scott Walker’s War on Big Government Isn’t […]

Education nerd? Journalism geek? Come help with This Week In Education and/or The Grade this fall.  TWIE is my long-running blog about national education trends, politics, advocacy, and funding. The Grade is my relatively new blog taking a close look at how mainstream news reports on what’s going on in schools.  Past contributors have done all […]

Image of newly-minted, just-hired teaching candidate from NYT story. Over the weekend, a new story from the NYT’s Motoko Rich came out, describing teacher shortages in various parts of the country including California, and the resulting scramble that’s taking place. Three days of tumultuous debate later, it seems clear that the extent and cause of […]

There are lots of exciting angles to the news that Editorial Projects in Education (the nonprofit outfit that runs EdWeek) is acquiring Learning Matters (which is John Merrow’s long-running nonprofit education media organization), but the most immediate and fun aspect that I can think of about the deal is speculation over who will replace Merrow […]

Today’s news includes Republican reactions to the Clinton college costs proposal, education activists in Ferguson, and a nurses’ endorsement for Bernie Sanders: Getting a break on back-to-school purchases Marketplace: At least 17 states hold sales-tax holidays for back-to-school-related purchases throughout the month of August, including Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. […]

There are bigger issues out there in the world of education journalism than this one, but it’s been annoying me for a while now that the Washington Post’s RSS page doesn’t consistently identify which stories are opinion-based columns and blog posts (from Valerie Strauss or Jay Mathews) and which are straight news stories. As you […]

There’s lots to admire about the latest This American Life episode focused on stealthy school integration efforts in Hartford, Connecticut.  But I must admit I found myself cringing at a couple of moments and much of the time comparing this week’s episode unfavorably to its immediate predecessor, which focused on accidental integration near Ferguson (Missouri) — […]

Welcome back! Today’s news includes Clinton’s new student debt relief plan, teacher shortages in several states and districts, and charter expansions in the works in Los Angeles and Nashville. There’s also a new “This American Life” segment about school desegregation efforts focused on Hartford, Connecticut: Hillary Clinton Wants To Help Student Debtors By Taxing The […]

Johnson (above, middle) moderating a 2012 EWA Panel (What’s In Store for Common Core?) First thing’s first: Fawn Johnson has left National Journal to become Chief Policy Editor for @MorningConsult but she’s still going to be writing about education sometimes from her new perch. And, given how much high-quality content she’s been able to put out while covering a bunch […]

The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook,Daily Show Video Archive I’m just as over-saturated with Jon Stewart / Daily Show stories as you are at this point, but there’s one long-ago moment that relates pretty directly to education journalism that still needs pointing out: It’s Stewart’s blistering 2009 interview with […]