Archives for Best Web OpEds
March 2015
Tuesday, March 31:
Guess What Happened When JPMorgan's CEO Visited Elizabeth Warren's Office (1 comments)
Et maintenant ? -- un communique des secretaires nationaux du POI
Opportunities of a Millennium (Part 1) (2 comments)
Monday, March 30:
Indiana Defines Stupidity as Religion; BY ANDY BOROWITZzzz The New Yorker (1 comments)
BREAKING NEWS: Karen Magee, NYSUT President, Calls for Mass Opt Out (2 comments)
Natylie Baldwin: Distorting Putin's Favorite Philosophers (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: Imaginary Health Care Horrors
We Can't Understand China Without an Upheaval in Our Thinking
Sunday, March 29:
Martin O'Malley: Presidency isn't a "crown to be passed between two families" (1 comments)
Help Florida Teacher Luke Flint "Tell His Story" about His VAM Scores (1 comments)
Off the Beaten Gadfly -- the Best Education Blog Pieces You Never Read in 2014: by Stephen Singer (1 comments)
Nearly 100 Superintendents Sign Petition to Save Public Education in NY; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Airships: The future of aviation?
Arizona school officials protest education cuts, so the legislature makes their protests illegal (1 comments)
Michigan Republican Says Schools Should be a Ministry of the Church
John Boehner Blames Obama For His Treasonous Conspiracy To Sabotage The President
Saturday, March 28:
MUST READ: Revelations of a Disillusioned Reformer; By Diane Ravitch (3 comments)
The Superintendent's Chair: How to kill a profession; by Michigan Sup't Steve Matthes (2 comments)
Exposing Hedge Fund Politics in New York; By GINIA BELLAFANTE NYTimes (1 comments)
NYT: "An Unsettling Complicity" (1 comments)
A Handbook for Education Activists; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Friday, March 27:
Mornings in Blue America (1 comments)
Thursday, March 26:
Thoughts About the Trans-Pacific Partnership (1 comments)
Must Sadism Be Cleared to Gather Signatures? (3 comments)
Lewis Black: Not even taking LSD in my youth could prepare me for Ted Cruz (2 comments)
Republican Email Games Backfire As Second Private Jeb Bush Email Account Uncovered (10 comments)
President Obama Sends Strong Signal That He Will Veto The House Republican Budget (1 comments)
Rocky Mountain Institute: An organization everyone should be aware of (1 comments)
Wednesday, March 25:
Americans Prove Stupid (3 comments)
Democrats Defend Freedom By Introducing Bill To Completely Repeal The Patriot Act (8 comments)
Another Blue State Outperforms A Typical Koch Fueled Red State Failure (2 comments)
Debunking the Myth of the Job-Stealing Immigrant (20 comments)
State spending $1.7 M. to fight school funding challenge; By Jessica Bakeman (1 comments)
Tuesday, March 24:
'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish', says Iceland
New Mexico UnEnchanted; by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley
Shades of the 1960s: Protesters Demonstrate in Front of Hedge Fund Billionaire's Plush Apartment; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Assembly ponders 'matrix' model of teacher evaluation, skeptically; by By Jessica Bakeman (1 comments)
Monday, March 23:
No Child Left Behind: What standardized test scores reveal about its legacy; by Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post (11 comments)
Netanyahu is either a liar or a liar, and the White House won't be played (1 comments)
Britain's Terrible, No-Good Economic Discourse
Sunday, March 22:
Long Island Dem Flips on Education Investment Tax Credit (1 comments)
Stupid anti-gay law will be considered in California thanks to stupid law about making laws
Saturday, March 21:
Bernie Sanders Demands War Tax On Millionaires To Pay For GOP Military Spending Increase (5 comments)
During Severe Drought San Francisco Catholics Soak The Homeless Who Are Seeking Shelter (1 comments)
Obama Details His Disappointment With Netanyahu In First Post-Election Comments (2 comments)
Black Lives Don't Matter: US Perpetuates Secrecy in Justice System (1 comments)
Ohio Superintendent: Testing Is Out of Control; by Diane Ravitch with Tom Dunn (1 comments)
Before Book Deal, Andrew Cuomo Backed Bills That Helped News Corporation; by David Sirota (1 comments)
Bill Moyers:'We Are This Close to Losing Our Democracy to the Mercenary Class' (1 comments)
It's Official: The Pentagon Finally Admitted That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons, Too (3 comments)
Media Blackout on Teacher Support for Opt Out in NY; Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Pearson and Its Palm Scan (and More);by Diane Ravitch/Mercedes Schneider (1 comments)
Charles Koch to Friedrich Hayek: Use Social Security! (4 comments)
Hedge fund execs' money for charter schools may pay off ; BY JUAN GONZALEZ NY Daily News (1 comments)
Walton-paid lobbyist introduced to facts (1 comments)
Friday, March 20:
WATCH: Jon Stewart Lets Fly in Brilliant 'Rage-gasm' About Fox's Relentless Hypocrisy (1 comments)
Obama On Loretta Lynch: "You Don't Hold Attorney General Nominees Hostage"
Spirituality in a New World Order: Is a One World Religious Authority in Formation? (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: Trillion Dollar Fraudsters
Videos - Rachel Maddow: Chemical lobbyist exposed as author of new bill to regulate industry (1 comments)
Republicans Vote To Hide Costs Of Repealing Obamacare In Budget
Trillion Dollar Fraudsters ; Paul Krugman, NYTimes (1 comments)
McConnell Urges States to Help Thwart Obama's 'War on Coal' ; by CORAL DAVENPORT, NYTimes. (1 comments)
Wednesday, March 18:
Maine Teacher Wins $1 Million Prize, Advises Young People Not to Enter Teaching Because of PARCC by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Go Ahead, Ruin My Day -by Thomas Friedman; NYTimes (1 comments)
Peter Greene: Teachers in New Mexico Are Not Allowed to Speak Ill of Standardized Tests (3 comments)
LAUSD "SCAFFOLDING": A PLACE FROM WHICH YOU HANG TEACHERS -Lenny Isenberg; Perdaily.com
California Water Anxiety Syndrome: Feel it yet? (1 comments)
Let's Give Edward Snowden the Same Deal General Petraeus Got for Leaking Info (2 comments)
New York Times Editorial Board Slams Netanyahu For Using Racism To Win Israeli Election
Tuesday, March 17:
Republicans Admit To Guessing On The Budget (1 comments)
Big Banking Interests Push Back, Part Two: Wall Street Interests Deceive the People about Public Banks (1 comments)
Guglielmo Tell: Did Budget Cuts in Ferguson Kill Michael Brown? (6 comments)
Monday, March 16:
3 Obvious Reasons for the Racial Wealth Gap in America--It's Time to Fix Them
Danish Professor Has Compelling Reason for Arguing Porn Belongs in the Classroom
Cotton Collapse: Iran Letter Author Gets Constitution And Geography Wrong In Same Interview (6 comments)
The Federalism Fallacy in King v. Burwell - David Rivkin and Elizabeth Price Foley - POLITICO Magazine (1 comments)
High Stakes Testing Makes Surveillance Necessary - Living in Dialogue by Anthony Cody (1 comments)
Netanyahu Says No Palestinian State if He Is Re-Elected (2 comments)
Paul Krugman: Israel's Gilded Age (2 comments)
Are You Complicit in "Soul Murder"? by Diane Ravitch & Joyce Murdock Feilke, (5 comments)
The Sickening Child Porn Crisis Infecting U.S. Government Agencies
Sunday, March 15:
McConnell vows: no vote on attorney general until abortion flap solved
Mitch McConnell Acts Like A Criminal By Offering Lie-Filled Alibi For Iran Letter On CNN (4 comments)
Dr. Zarif's Response to the Letter of US Senators
Alex Suarez: A New Concept for Accountability; by Diane Ravitch & Alex Suarez (1 comments)
Saving Community Schools: by Ed Berger (1 comments)
BREAKING: Iran's Foreign Minister responds to the letter from 47 Republican Senators (1 comments)
Saturday, March 14:
Exclusive: Netanyahu Canceled Intel Briefing for U.S. Senators on Iran Dangers
Is It Time to Disband the Republican Party? (4 comments)
Lindsey Graham Proves Ayatollah Right -- America Is Disintegrating in Madness
Washington Post: The True Scandal of the GOP Senators' Letter to Iran (4 comments)
Iran-letter Backlash Spreads to Early States
Even Republicans Are Calling Their Sabotage Of Obama With Iran Letter A Disaster (1 comments)
CURMUDGUCATION: Coke Provides a Marketing Lesson; by Peter Greene (1 comments)
Privatization Scams You Should Know About; by Diane ravitch (1 comments)
Friday, March 13:
McCain, Rand Paul Roll Out New Excuses For Sabotage Letter
Fountas & Pinnell Create More Rigorous Common Core Guided Reading Guidelines (2 comments)
Laura Chapman: The Federal Marketing Campaign for Common Core; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
John McCain Blames A Snowstorm For His Treasonous Decision To Sign Iran Letter
Bernie Sanders Explains How 47 Treasonous GOP Senators Tried To Sabotage World Peace (1 comments)
Thursday, March 12:
8 things you need to know about Bill C-51 (1 comments)
European allies join in criticism of Republican letter to Iran
The Republican Party Is A Party Of Subversives (2 comments)
LAUSD and UTLA Complicity Kills Collective Bargaining and Civil Rights for LA's Teachers; by Lenny Isenberg (1 comments)
Bibi Using Congressional Address In New Campaign Ad, Just As Critics Warned
The Death of Outrage: It Once Fueled the Internet. Now the Internet's Moving On.
NYTimes Jinxes Elizabeth Warren (7 comments)
Obama Annihilates Scott Walker After Governor Signs Wisconsin Right To Work Law
The Peterson Foundation Sings the Same Old Song (2 comments)
New York Hedge Funds Pour Millions of Dollars into Cuomo-Led Bid to Expand Charter Schools (1 comments)
Wednesday, March 11:
Israel vote seen as referendum on Netanyahu years (1 comments)
The Disruption Machine; by Jill Lepore, The New Yorker (2 comments)
Quantitative Easing for Whom? ;by Michael Hudson (1 comments)
CURMUDGUCATION: Economist Hansuhek Gets It Wrong Again; by Peter Greene (1 comments)
Tuesday, March 10:
The Error in the Senators' Letter to the Leaders of Iran
GOP senators appear set on their own breakaway nation - The Washington Post (1 comments)
GOP Hates Obama More Than a Nuclear Iran
Elusive Justice in Wisconsin ; by The Editorial board; NYTimes. (2 comments)
The Network For Public Education (1 comments)
Separating fact from fiction in 21 claims about charter schools; by Valerie Strauss; The Washington Post (2 comments)
Chelsea Manning: The CIA's torturers and the leaders who approved their actions must face the law
Fran Lebowitz: Capitalism Triumphed Over Both Communism and Democracy; by Mark Karlin (2 comments)
The Myth of Voter Fraud; by Lorraine C. Minnite (1 comments)
Monday, March 9:
Republicans are beginning to act as though Barack Obama isn't even the president (5 comments)
Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Dear Hillary: A Word About Trust (2 comments)
Needed in School: 140 Characters (1 comments)
Justice Department's Ferguson Report Resonates Across the US
On Climate, Humanity Must Rise Up Against 'Collective Shrug of Fatalism' (2 comments)
Beware of Education Reformers Who Co-Opt the Language of the Civil Rights Movement ; by Denisha Jones (1 comments)
Hello, Gov. Cuomo, Two More Charters Fail in Albany; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
A Reckless Call From the Senate's Leader; by the Editorial Board, NYTimes (1 comments)
Bill allows outside nonprofit to operate school district taken over; by Max Brantly (1 comments)
Sunday, March 8:
Natasha Hakimi: Truthdigger of the Week: Rabbi Michael Lerner (1 comments)
Charter Investors' Conference: Your Tax Dollars at Work: Laura Chapman at Diane Ravitch (3 comments)
Obamacare Saved? Not So Fast...
The Cost of Paying Attention; by By MATTHEW B. CRAWFORD, NYTimes (2 comments)
If an Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know? - By SHELLEY PODOLNY, NYTimes (3 comments)
Saturday, March 7:
The Libertarian Delusion; Robert Kuttner (5 comments)
Robert Fisk: Who can the Saudis trust when they find themselves on Netanyahu's side? (1 comments)
Video: Malcolm X On Police Treatment of Blacks
Bullets Over Washington - by Joe Nocera, NYTimes (1 comments)
The Top-10 Most Unwanted List--the Enemies of Public Education; Lloyd Lofthouse
Tah-Dah: The Coveted BUNKUM Awards!; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Friday, March 6:
Paul Krugman: Pepperoni Turns Partisan (2 comments)
Newly Relevant Benghazi Panel Spooks Dems (1 comments)
Peter Greene: David Brooks Gets Everything Wrong (Again); by Diane RAVITCH & Peter Greene (2 comments)
Chris Matthews Promises to Be "Transparent and Fair" About Wife's Potential Campaign
Thursday, March 5:
For All Those Who Were Indian In A Former Life
Abolishing Representative Government Through Education: Freedom Outpost (1 comments)
The 12 Reasons We Oppose the PARCC Test (1 comments)
The Entire GOP Field for 2016 is as Tainted as a Bucket of Rotten Meat
Wednesday, March 4:
Reagan adviser to GOP: A Fun Read!
Mark Morford: The awesome lie of your foolproof perception (9 comments)
Knowledge and Morality in Information (1 comments)
Dems May Want to Watch What Duncan Is Wishing For :: Frederick M. Hess (3 comments)
The Big Error of School Accountability - Living in Dialogue;Antony Cody site; by John Kuhn. (8 comments)
Testing, Testing, Testing. - School Leadership 2.0; Diane Ravitch /David A. Gamberg; Superintendent (4 comments)
A Stunning Graphic on the Failure of Test-Based Accountability; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
The Obamacare Challenge We Need? Improved, Expanded Medicare for All
Noam Chomsky: "Who Owns the World"
Jon Stewart's 50 Fox News Lies in 6 Seconds
Tuesday, March 3:
The Path to Freedom From Corruption Goes Through New York State -- And Your State; by Zephyr Teachout (2 comments)
FairTest: Weekly Report on Resistance to High-Stakes Testing; Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Carol Burris on Governor Cuomo's Baloney; by Diane Ravitch & Caol Burris (1 comments)
Politico Reports: Democrats Fight to Keep NCLB Testing in Place; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Special Edition: Boehner Blinks
Teacher to Parents: How to Stop the Test Mania; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Obamacare Case: All Eyes on 2 Justices
Shooting death of unarmed homeless man by LAPD reveals deep flaws in American policing (1 comments)
According to Scott Walker, This Is What a Terrorist Looks Like
The 10 Smartest (and the Dumbest) Presidents in America's History
Monday, March 2:
John Boehner Bails On Reality: Blames Obama For All Republican Failures
Paul Krugman: Walmart's Visible Hand
Tea Partying, Anti-Obamacare Ex-Sheriff Now Begging for Help to Pay Medical Bills
CURMUDGUCATION: What Duncan Got Wrong About Testing; by Peter Greene (1 comments)
Tennessee: "Achievement School District" In Search of High-Performing Students; BY DIANE RAVITCH (1 comments)
It's a Busy Week of Destruction For Republicans: SCOTUS To Hear Argument in Two Big Cases (4 comments)
Did the New York Times Just Accuse the Supreme Court of Being Corrupt? (3 comments)
Bernie Sanders Calls Out Media For Not Covering Obama's Trade Deal (4 comments)
Sunday, March 1:
Eliz Warren: the TPP clause everyone should oppose (1 comments)
Conservatives Tarnish Their Brand Further (1 comments)
Netanyahu's address to Congress will be most important speech of his life
"NEGOTIATING" THE END OF UTLA? - Lenny Isenberg; Perdaily (1 comments)
Stab In The Backlash: How A New Iraq War Is Being Fought
Democrats Are Losing Some Skirmishes, But Many Feel They Are Winning a Political War