Duncan

Shouldn't Every Child Have an Education Like the President's Daughters'?

Gerald Bracey | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics


Gerald Bracey

The president sends Malia and Sasha to a post-modern school focused on the personalization of learning. Isn't it time that every family in the nation has the same opportunity?

Breaking Free of the Urban Education Plantation

Gerald Bracey | Posted 09.02.2009 | Politics


Gerald Bracey

I don't think that Geoffrey Canada has found the "ideal intervention" for Harlem kids (he'd be on his way to Oslo to get that Nobel if he'd done that), but I think his model is the way to go.

Obama and Duncan Champion Test Abuse

Gerald Bracey | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics


Gerald Bracey

The President and his Secretary of Education want to use existing tests, willy-nilly, to evaluate teachers. They should both be ashamed.

On Education, the Obama Administration Veers Off Course

Gerald Bracey | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics


Gerald Bracey

How can the Obama administration get it right in education when its data are all wrong and its assumptions about its faulty data are flawed?

A Solution to the Education Dilemma

Deborah Emin | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics


Deborah Emin

This solution, which is simple, cheap and easy to do in every school, will insult or anger many people. But, I can tell you that this will work and will solve more problems than it creates.

Looking Deeper Into Obama Education Pick's Accomplishments

Alexander Russo | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago


Alexander Russo

Like Bush's Education Secretary pick Rod Paige, Arne Duncan comes from a big city with a success story that the national press failed to figure out was mostly a mirage.