Transcendental Educationist

Diane Ravitch has written a book about her retreat from supporting school choice, accountability, and other “market-based” reforms such as v...

When it comes to improving schools, the only metric that's ever discussed is getting more out of them. We talk about improving test sco...

This article in the Seattle Times is about the hard financial times at the University of Washington, the state's flagship university. ...

Here is a YouTube video posted by M.J. McDermott, a weather girl in Seattle who went back to college to get a degree in atmospheric science...

See here for the shell game going on in Olympia, capital of Washington State, about public employee pensions. The double-talk from these st...

This article in the Wall Street Journal discusses a study of so-called failing schools in California. It measures the mobility of schools ...

One justification for the heavy involvement of state and federal governments in education is market failure. Market failure is a micro-econ...