Quotes

via School-to-prison pipeline: maybe we are at fault after all

“When life gives you / hospital beds, / turn those / sunlit windows / into your / inner balconies / instead.” Christy Bharath meditates on life in India, post-surgery.

via When life gives you hospital beds, find your inner balconies — Discover

via Michigan: Education Funding Declined More Than Any Other State in 25 Years

via West Virginia: Gov. Justice Promised to Block Charter Schools But He Lied

Dana Goldstein has been covering education for 13 years. At the beginning of her career, bashing teachers’ unions and praising charters was in. Now red-shirted teachers have canceled that narrative and reminded her (not me) that only 6% of the nation’s children are in charter schools. She doesn’t reflect on the damage that charters […]

via Dana Goldstein: In 13 Years of Covering Education, the World Has Changed — Diane Ravitch’s blog