[Header Photo by Javier Allegue Barros on Unsplash] The year is 1997 and the topic, of course, is improving a failing education system in the U.S. Linda Darling-Hammond explains in the Preface [1]:…| dr. p.l. (paul) thomas
Update September 2023 Grade Retention Harms Children, Corrupts Test Data, But Not a Miracle: Mississippi Edition UPDATE CRUMBLING SCHOOLS, DISMAL OUTCOMES: Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Educa…| dr. p.l. (paul) thomas
George W. Bush built his path to the presidency on education reform, the discredited Texas “miracle,” and manufacturing his persona as a kinder and gentler conservative. One of his most…| dr. p.l. (paul) thomas
Republican/conservative education reform has been a subset of disaster capitalism for decades now, most prominently after Hurricane Katrina when Republicans used the natural disaster to dismantle p…| dr. p.l. (paul) thomas
One of the key flaws of education reform since the 1980s is that education policy tends to be more about political and popular fads resulting in copy-cat state education policy than about addressin…| dr. p.l. (paul) thomas