Dina Strasser and I have begun a joint blogging venture, comparing notes on our reading classrooms this year. We set up a project blog called Reading Free, and plan to exchange posts there. I’m interested in this from a couple of different angles, one...

The Borderland blog passed its fifth anniversary this month, and I want to recognize some people. Five years is a long time to work on something. For me, at least. I started writing here just after GW Bush’s second term election. I had not read any...

The corporate perversion of public schooling is making inroads here through what we are all coming to know as “progress monitoring,” delivered locally through an expensive corporately packaged iteration of RTI, which tracks meaningless data (counting...

Although Alaska did not participate in the development of national education standards initiative, it seems that the professional community will have an opportunity to review the proposed standards and render an opinion according to the following...

“A CRISIS is tearing through the American public education system like a tornado,” writes John Green, a member of the California Teachers Association State Council. “It threatens to uproot and overturn everything in its path.” He asks where the...