Gary Rubinstein's Blog

So those of you who know me for my posts about charter schools and Teach For America, well, this is something very different but I promise I will approach it with my same compulsion and witty (and often very verbose) writing.

No matter where you go in New York City, you are forced to ponder the Success Academy charter network.

A loaded question that education reformers like to ponder is: Exactly how many students in the boroughs of New York City are trapped in failing schools?

At the height of my blogging, it was hard to keep up with the steady stream of stories about miracle schools, miracle districts, shoddy educational research, and shoddy models for school and teacher evaluation.

I know.

I’ve been teaching Math for 35 years.

If you regularly read my blog, you’ll be expecting a charter school takedown, a TFA rant, or some other education policy analysis.

A few days ago I saw in my feed the headline “High-Poverty D.C.

One of the initiatives of former (and disgraced) Mayor Adams and of the former (and disgraced) Chancellor Banks was a math plan called ‘NYC Solves.’

Fifty years after the publication of her first book, ‘The Great School Wars’, author and historian Diane Ravtich has released her long awaited memoirs.

It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina wiped out the New Orleans schools system causing it to be replaced with all charter schools.