We still talk about public education as the great equalizer and pathway out of poverty, but continue to fall far short in assuring millions of poor children upward mobility.
Is it the governors who are demanding that schools be more effective while making draconiana cuts eliminating teachers, closing schools and eliminating subjects that children come to school to enjoy?
Education is what has helped the quality of American society grow so quickly in the last couple hundred years. This is because adults have made the right sacrifices for all of our kids.
Staying in school and receiving a quality education are the best deterrents to juvenile delinquency. Yet almost half of our states spend on average more than three times as much per prisoner as per public school pupil.
Kids who spend more than half their childhood in poverty earn, on average, 39 percent less than median income as adults. Yet, a majority of House lawmakers want to narrow the deficit by making things worse for today's kids.
As Texas lawmakers prepare to cut billions in education funding and give school districts a heavier hand in determining teacher pay, the state's educa...
I was recently contacted, from prison, by a former student, a brilliant young man according to the state standardized tests we were giving a decade ago on which he scored in the 99th percentile in math and not far below that in English.
SAN FRANCISCO -- College students and faculty in California and other states on Wednesday planned to protest state budget cuts to higher education tha...
3,600 school district jobs, making an average of $56,000 a year, will be eliminated in Colorado in the near future. If that isn't worth getting out of your seats -- you're already dead where you sit.
Republicans campaigned in 2010 on creating jobs and cutting spending and the deficit. But once in power, both in the House and in numerous states, all those promises went out the window.
Like our congested highways, bursting water pipes and corroding bridges, decaying schools are a reminder that our prosperity as a nation is jeopardized by physical neglect.
We must make every school as good as the schools in our wealthiest communities. That is exactly why the Department of Education recently launched the Equity and Excellence Commission.
Colorado's new governor is going to ask high school teachers at three of the city's schools to teach another class per semester. It's a kind of peer pressure move that is based on faulty logic.
So if you've picked up a newspaper in the past week or so, you know that the federal budget is in major flux, with the prospect of a government shutdo...
At a time when school board meetings have become a setting for unwanted announcements and contentious discussions, Superintendent Bill Korach of Lake ...
Brian Sandoval is proposing a band-aid for the schools; Rory Reid is promising a genuine overhaul, eliminating bureaucracy and affording teachers the freedom to innovate and lead.
Apparently helping New York retain its most critical public services is not among the "easy-to-reference issues" political donors should consider "when political candidates are calling for contributions."
(The following story comes courtesy of California Watch)
By Corey G. Johnson
Fed up with what they called "stall tactics," the teachers union at the...
Looking at the national economic statistics, you might be able to persuade yourself that the recession is over. But observing local communities - nei...
Reporters should clarify Scott McInnis' position on education cuts. Asked if there were any "Colorado boards" he would eliminate, McInnis replied, "You could look at the Department of Education."