Stan Karp, an editor of the newspaper Rethinking Schools. He has been a school teacher for 28 years. He currently teaches at John F Kennedy High School in New Jersey.
This year marks the 50th anniversary ofĀ San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, the landmark 5-4 Supreme Court decision that held that…
A Turning Point for Our Schools?
The bigger problem is the role the Common Core State Standards are playing in the larger dynamics of current school reform and education politics
Somewhere along the way, nearly every teacher dreams of starting a school. I know I did. More than once during the 30…
About a year ago I was invited to Portland to give a talk about who was bashing teachers and public schools in the wake…
Long before director Davis Guggenheim jumped out of a phone booth in his Superman costume, I spent three decades as a high…
While running for president, Barack Obama called No Child Left Behind "one of the emptiest slogans in the history of American politics."…
George Miller is not making adequate yearly progress. Neither is Ted Kennedy. As a result, reauthorization of the No Child Left…
Assuming the planet survives the remaining months of the George W. Bush era, 2008 will bring a presidential campaign and renewed debate…
We are now in year five of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Once hailed as a historic new federal commitment to leave…
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