I just noticed that the blog has had 15,000,050 page views since its inception on April 26, 2012.

I am amazed and gratified.

Thank you to the readers who are here everyday, commenting, sending articles from your town, city  or state.

Thank for for engaging in thoughtful dialogue in the comment section.

Some of the best-read blogs have been written not by me, but by you.

The blog has become a hub of the resistance to high-stakes testing and privatization. I will continue to highlight the hard work you do to strengthen your public schools, to stand up for children, and to defend real education, as opposed to the massive machinery of data collection that is now promoted by the U.S. Department of Education and the Gates Foundation. I will continue to honor those parents, students, and educators who speak out for real education and for treating students and teachers…