Recommended Reading: “The Battle for New York Schools: Eva Moskowitz vs. Mayor Bill de Blasio”
The battle is heating up, especially in New York City, between populism and liberalism, and what’s the best way to reform education. That’s how I c...
Tag: charter schools
Recommended Reading: “The Original Charter School Vision”
This morning I read a well-written and mostly-neutral short history of the charter school movement. In “The Original Charter School Vision,” Richar...
Recommended Reading: “A Walmart Fortune, Spreading Charter Schools”
Motoko Rich makes another excellent contribution to reporting about the charter school movement. In “A Walmart Fortune, Spreading Charter Schools,”...
Problem: American schools. Scapegoat: Charter schools.
The school year has just begun, and already, things are getting hot. Since Motoko Rich’s excellent article, “At Charter Schools, Short Careers By C...
Background on the New York Times article
A few folks are asking how my recent article in The New York Times came to be. They want to know: Um, Mark, exactly how is it possible that the NYT deemed you ...