The Legend of the CTB/McGraw Hill

There is a legend that says that in the early part of the 21st Century, New York City Public Schools Chancellor, Joel Klein was riding high on the educational reform wave. He decided to gather all of the most well known ed reformers in the country together for a week of conferences, speeches, think [...]

Finally, An Insider Admits to the True Purpose of No Child Left Behind

Gerald Bracey of the Huffington Post provides a commentary on the June 8th issue of Time Magazine, in which Susan Neuman, who was an assistant secretary of education at the time that NCLB was being proposed admits that the law was looked at as a ‘Trojan horse” and that “There were a number of people [...]

McGraw-Hill Says “I’s is Edumacated”

The McGraw-Hill Proofreader job posting must have gone something like this:

Wanted
A Level 1 reader to serve as an In-depth Proofreading Executive in our Education office. Must be able to overlook basic typos and have the skill to confuse even the most advanced reader with the use of incorrect subject-verb agreement and parallelism. High School Graduates [...]

Question:What Will McGraw Hill Do With All Of the Profits From The Education Contracts?

Answer: What Every Blue-Blooded American Company Does. Lay People Off
Forbes.com writes:
“Shares of McGraw-Hill Cos. slipped Wednesday as investors fretted about job cuts and a related charge that analysts shrugged off.
Late Tuesday the educational publisher said it would cut 395 jobs in its educational publishing and financial services divisions, which would lead to a second-quarter [...]