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AUTHOR PROFILE

Rob Levine

See here for a bibliography of other education writing by Rob Levine

8 reports by Rob Levine

4/26/2021	Proposed Page Amendment is the Cruz-Guzman killer
3/10/2021	Time for Alan Page, Mike Ciresi and the Minneapolis Foundation to grab some bench
9/20/2019	How the Bush Foundation wasted $45 million and 10 years on an ill-conceived attack on teachers
5/15/2019	One way charter schools can kill a public school district
10/8/2018	What Conor Williams didn't see in Minneapolis
5/7/2017	Twenty five years later charter schools a costly, failed experiment
4/23/2017	Free to choose a Walmart school
9/4/2012	Beating the odds, or beating the test?

Rob Levine bibliography

Racketmn.com: Phonics Fundamentalism Comes to Minnesota
Inside the perils of legislating literacy with suspect science.

Racketmn.com: How the Minneapolis Foundation Bankrolls the Destruction of Public Schools
With hopes of creating an education "marketplace," the business foundation floods the city with charter schools while vilifying teachers' unions.

Performing feats of legerdemain
There's a big difference between a teacher's rating on a flawed and invalid evaluation system and her "performance." Just don't try and tell that to local media.

High performing Charter Schools: Beating the odds, or beating the test?

School Reformers' Choir: Minneapolis Mayoral Candidates All Sing From Same Hymnal

The ConnCan con: MinnCon next?

Inside MinnCAN: Political intent, dissembling, and big payments to 50CAN

Nine-part series on School Choice & Authoritarianism

	Part 1:	Deformed: Authoritarian undercurrents in education
	Part 2:	The danger to education and democracy posed by authoritarianism
	Part 3:	School choice birthed in authoritarian racial animus and market fundamentalism
	Part 4:	Education deformers achieve political success through a culture of lying, repetition, and compliance, not logic, reason and evidence
	Part 5:	Deformed schools: Reduced diversity, authoritarian education styles, narrowed curriculum, and harming of critical thinking skills
	Part 6:	Collapse of authority breeds authoritarianism
	Part 7:	Replacing democracy with authoritarianism
	Part 8:	The authoritarian journalism of education reform
	Part 9:	Authoritarianism on the march

Charter schools crash and burn in Minnesota

Disseminating propaganda: The National Council on Teacher Quality

Propagating a dishonest narrative

A lesson in Plutocracy

The anti-democratic politics of Minnesota's largest philanthropies

Schools failing? Yes, if steady improvement equals failure

Creating little authoritarians

Bullshit and bellow: Deformers aim to destroy traditional schools of education

Let's show our schools some love

WRITERS

Rob Levine