Morning Reading: This Space for Sale
• A delightful piece by Barbara Jones profiles the latest scheme by LAUSD to make a little extra cash: selling advertising space on about 70 vans and delivery trucks. Actually seems like a pretty good...
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Attack on Zimmer Wasn’t from Anderson Campaign
Steve Zimmer and Kate Anderson LA School Report has learned a little of the backstory behind a recent election-focused post that was published on former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch’s...
View ArticleMorning Read: Union to Re-Interview Runoff Candidates
Big Money in L.A. School Board Races UTLA is apparently, re-interviewing the two remaining candidates. It sat out that race in the first round by endorsing all three candidates and spending no money....
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NYU Professor’s Non-Apology to Parent Revolution Head
Over the recent Memorial Day weekend, NYU education historian Diane Ravitch penned a pair of angry blog posts about the parent trigger and Parent Revolution’s Ben Austin. Among other things, Ravitch...
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Board Member-Elect Clarifies Teacher Pay Position
More than a few eyebrows were raised when School Board member-elect Monica Ratliff appeared at a Thursday Educators for Excellence (E4E) event and seemed to signal support for some kind of a test-based...
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Davis Guggenheim Turns His Camera Back onto Teachers
Davis Guggenheim, Director of New Documentary, ‘Teach’ Davis Guggenheim, the director of An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for Superman, has a new film coming out — Teach, a two-hour documentary...
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Matt Damon, Steve Zimmer: Ravitch’s BFFs in LA
Introducing Ravitch: Steve Zimmer and Matt Damon LA Unified board member Steve Zimmer, who just spent a weekend with Superintendent John Deasy talking education policy in Washington D.C., is getting...
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Damon Takes the Stage, but Ravitch Wins the Applause
Matt Damon with Diane Ravitch When the actor Matt Damon stood before a capacity crowd inside the Cal State Northridge student union last night, he smiled sheepishly and said he wasn’t surprised to see...
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Ellie Herman: A Teacher Learning from Teachers
Ellie Herman Ellie Herman is a writer and English teacher, who taught Drama, Advanced Drama, Creative Writing, English 11 and 9th grade composition at Animo Pat Brown Charter High School in south Los...
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Hendy-Newbill gets a boost with endorsement from Ravitch
Hendy-Newbill gets a boost with endorsement from Ravitch Sherlett Hendy-Newbill *UPDATED While UTLA, the Los Angeles teachers union, has endorsed three candidates in next week’s District 1 school board...
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Commentary: Ravitch’s view on charters polarize rather than help
Diane Ravitch Editor’s note: In the LA Times yesterday, Diane Ravitch argued passionately that the future of public education in Los Angeles depends on whom the LA Unified board selects as its next...
View ArticleMorning Reading: This Space for Sale
• A delightful piece by Barbara Jones profiles the latest scheme by LAUSD to make a little extra cash: selling advertising space on about 70 vans and delivery trucks. Actually seems like a pretty good...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Attack on Zimmer Wasn’t from Anderson Campaign
Steve Zimmer and Kate Anderson LA School Report has learned a little of the backstory behind a recent election-focused post that was published on former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch’s...
View ArticleMorning Read: Union to Re-Interview Runoff Candidates
Big Money in L.A. School Board Races UTLA is apparently, re-interviewing the two remaining candidates. It sat out that race in the first round by endorsing all three candidates and spending no money....
View ArticleClik here to view.
NYU Professor’s Non-Apology to Parent Revolution Head
Over the recent Memorial Day weekend, NYU education historian Diane Ravitch penned a pair of angry blog posts about the parent trigger and Parent Revolution’s Ben Austin. Among other things, Ravitch...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Board Member-Elect Clarifies Teacher Pay Position
More than a few eyebrows were raised when School Board member-elect Monica Ratliff appeared at a Thursday Educators for Excellence (E4E) event and seemed to signal support for some kind of a test-based...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Davis Guggenheim Turns His Camera Back onto Teachers
Davis Guggenheim, Director of New Documentary, ‘Teach’ Davis Guggenheim, the director of An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for Superman, has a new film coming out — Teach, a two-hour documentary...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Matt Damon, Steve Zimmer: Ravitch’s BFFs in LA
Introducing Ravitch: Steve Zimmer and Matt Damon LA Unified board member Steve Zimmer, who just spent a weekend with Superintendent John Deasy talking education policy in Washington D.C., is getting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Damon Takes the Stage, but Ravitch Wins the Applause
Matt Damon with Diane Ravitch When the actor Matt Damon stood before a capacity crowd inside the Cal State Northridge student union last night, he smiled sheepishly and said he wasn’t surprised to see...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ellie Herman: A Teacher Learning from Teachers
Ellie Herman Ellie Herman is a writer and English teacher, who taught Drama, Advanced Drama, Creative Writing, English 11 and 9th grade composition at Animo Pat Brown Charter High School in south Los...
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