By now, it's quite clear that the battle over charter schools inspires a lot of controversy, dissension, and bickering. Things have gotten particularly heated this week at Public School/Middle School 149 in Harlem, which shares space with the Harlem Success Academy charter. And someone just couldn't help but bring Hitler into this fight. more ›

While the NY Times' story on a Harlem charter school's kindergarten visit to the Queens County Farm Museum might just seem like a human interest story, there's actually a serious reason behind it: The state's English and math tests seem biased towards kids with knowledge of farms. There are "several questions each year about livestock, crops and the other staples of the rural experience that some educators say flummox city children, whose knowledge of nature might begin and end at Central Park. On the state English test this year, for instance, third graders were asked questions relating to chickens and eggs. In math, they had to count sheep and horses." Oh no!!! more ›