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We disagree about school choice

Aaron J. Saiger (Fordham): What We Disagree About When We Disagree About School Choice. Preston C. Green (UConn), Bruce D Baker (Rutgers), and Joseph Oluwole (Montclair State): Having it Both Ways: How Charter Schools Try to Obtain Funding of Public Schools and the Autonomy of Private Schools. Morgan Anderson (Georgia State): Philosophical Flaws of Common Core: A Rawlsian Perspective. “The Common Core may actually fail”: Josh Eidelson interviews American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten on Christie, Rhee, and for-profit testing “gag order”. From Radical Pedagogy, Arianne Robichaud interviews Noam Chomsky on education. David Morris on how what’s good for Bill Gates turns out to be bad for public schools. From Education Review, Michael W. Apple reviews Public Education Under Siege, ed. Michael Madison Katz and Mike Rose; and Connie Schaffer reviews Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools by Diane Ravitch. Say goodbye to public schools: Diane Ravitch warns some cities will soon have none (and more and more and more). Matthew Yglesias on the myth of "public" schools: “This is a housing policy problem masquerading as an education policy one”. Some cities are promising free college to high school students — does it work? How high schools condition students to accept their lot: Richard D. Kahlenberg reviews Class Rules: Exposing Inequality in American High Schools by Peter W. Cookson Jr. Katie Halper in the 7 most absurd things America's kids are learning thanks to the conservative gutting of public education. Kathryn Joyce on the homeschool apostates: They were raised to carry the fundamentalist banner forward and redeem America — but now the Joshua Generation is rebelling.