Education related events are popping up all over the southeast part of Michigan over the next week. Here is a run-down on those that I have learned about. FRIENDS OF EDUCATION MEET & GREET – MARCH 8, 2014 (TODAY!) AT NOON IN ANN ARBOR Today from noon to 2:00 at the Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, a wide variety […]

Good to see that Jeff Steinborn, the Snyder campaign videographer/photographer busted for impersonating a CNN reporter at a Mark Schauer campaign event, is getting some well-deserved national ridicule. Here he is last night on The Ed Show being skewered by Ed Schultz: Relentless positive ineptitude?

In a Detroit News op-ed today, Governor Rick Snyder doubled down on his support for the failed experiment with Detroit students known as the Education Achievement Authority. The piece, titled “The EAA is a worthy experiment” is nearly comical in its Polly Annaish view of the EAA. Our governor seems to have bought every single story told to him about […]

Seriously? That’s the level you’ve sunk to? This past Saturday, a videographer working for Governor Rick Snyder posed as a CNN reporter while filming Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer at a campaign stop in Coldwater. Schauer staffers questioned the man who showed them this homemade media pass: When asked where he was from, he pointed to his CNN hat. A […]

Educator and education activist Sherry Gay-Dagnogo has created a MoveOn.org petition asking Governor Rick Snyder to end his education experiment on Detroit’s students — the failed Education Achievement Authority. You can sign the petition HERE Here is the text of the petition: Tell Governor Snyder to Shut the E.A.A. Down! To be delivered to The Michigan State House, The Michigan […]

David Barton calls himself an historian though he has no credentials as an historian and is far more accurately described as an historical revisionist. The Southern Poverty Law Center, watchdog for hate mongers in America, has an entire page on Barton and it’s worth reading only so that you can see what a jaw-dropping charlatan he is. Here are some […]

Your tax money hard at work…being wasted Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette’s fight to preserve our state’s bigoted same-sex marriage ban was dealt a significant blow yesterday when professional opinion-holder and philosophy student Sherif Girgis was barred from testifying as an “expert” in the marriage equality case of April Deboer and Jayne Rowse: A judge barred an Ivy League law […]

Several days ago, I wrote about how MEAP testing scores of students in the Education Achievement Authority experiment in Detroit fail to support claims that students in the system were actually making progress. Further analysis of the “cohort data” which tracks individual students from one grade level to the next shows that the situation is actually much worse than the […]

David Nir at Daily Kos points out how big a flip-flopper Republican stealth candidate Terri Lynn Land is: For the second time this campaign, Republican Terri Lynn Land seems to have no idea what her position on Obamacare is. On Thursday, Land said she “applauds” Michigan’s decision to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, which might seem like a […]

Working together with health officials, vehicle manufacturers, refiners, states, and with input from the general public, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized new emission standards for vehicles and fuels that will have a huge impact on public health and the quality of the air we breathe. The new rules, signed by President Obama EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy today, call for a […]

Today’s interview is with a former EAA administrator who was fired by Chancellor Covington (though she was allowed to “resign”) but never given a reason why. In fact, after she collected unemployment for over a month, the EAA challenged her unemployment on the basis of “misconduct”. However, their accusation was found to be unsubstantiated and their claim was denied. But […]