Democratic Education Blog

The notion that every child has a right to education may seem so obvious that we actually end up ignoring the deeper ramifications of what this statement means. Simply having a system of public schools is not sufficient.
Several organizations and groups are doing powerful work to frame educational discourse within the context […]

The New York Times reported on a Senate committee that met yesterday to consider ways in which to prevent tragedies such as that of the recent shootings at Virginia Tech. After watching some of the committee meeting on C-Span and reading the Times article, I am once again deeply frustrated about the direction of […]

Many politicians, district administrators, and school leaders around the country are implementing or considering longer days and extended school years for those schools that have been labelled failing or whose test scores are lower compared to other schools.
Here’s a link to a New York Times article, March 26, 2007. (requires logging in)
This misguided […]

Unfortunately, it seems that every day Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation get further and further away from their educational roots. Just this past week, as picked up by the Associated Press, Gates testified to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, largely regarding educational issues. However, instead of emphasizing the […]