Obama, Korea and American Schools
Our children can become the world's greatest experts on test taking, but that will not stop businesses from shipping jobs overseas to India, China and South Korea, where standards of living are lower.
Our children can become the world's greatest experts on test taking, but that will not stop businesses from shipping jobs overseas to India, China and South Korea, where standards of living are lower.
Esther Wojcicki | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact
Watch the education forum here. We have a powerhouse panel including the Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter, Stanford Professor Linda Darling Hammond, and NYC Chancellor Joel Klein.
Alan Singer | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
Social promotion was never a big problem. Politicians, including both Thompson and Mayor Moneybags, created an unnecessary furor and stigmatized a tiny fraction of the student population.
Alan Singer | Posted 11.28.2009 | New York
No school district anywhere in the United States where the student population is overwhelmingly drawn from poor families has been "turned around."
Dan Brown | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Rhee's mislaid battle of gutting the union and purging veteran teachers will leave an experience and institutional knowledge vacuum that no quantity of super-caffeinated 22-year-old Yalies can remake.
William C. Thompson, Jr. | Posted 08.29.2009 | New York
The stakes are too high to fail. If we are to address the education challenges confronting our children, we must have an educator at the helm of our school system again.
Gerald Bracey | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
School boards are fractious and try to micromanage. They are amateurs and prisoners of deeply rooted school bureaucracies. But do mayors do better?
Leonie Haimson | Posted 08.20.2009 | New York
He also went on at some length about how elected officials and top administrators never listen to teachers, but unfortunately by that time, all of those who had been there, including Joel Klein, had left the room.
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York
New York City's hastily appointed seven-member Board of Education has voted to reappoint Schools Chancellor Joel Klein with full authority to run the...
Dan Collins | Posted 07.25.2009 | New York
Once again today all eyes will turn to Albany and we'll be bringing you every new, exciting moment of dysfunction. And please, check out our bloggers
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics
The last re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (called No Child Left Behind) was an attempt to close these gaps, but the status quo protects bad schools and bad teachers.
Joel Klein | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
Eliminating the racial and ethnic achievement gap in our nation's public schools is the most urgent civil rights challenge for this generation.
Lanny Davis | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
Joel Klein has relied on three principles: developing public school leadership, incentives for teacher quality, and accountability. His approach has produced some demonstrable progress.
Jim Luce | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics
Handsome, dedicated, and driven, Micah is the disabled with cerebral palsy, Jewish progressive, openly bisexual, who represents a swath of Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Rev. Al Sharpton and Joel Klein | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
Transforming the teaching profession into a merit-based system is an obvious first step toward reducing educational inequality.
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
Michelle Rhee, education chancellor of the District of Columbia -- in charge of the worst performing public school system in the nation -- has laid do...
Greg Palast | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
You'd think the studious Senator from Illinois would avoid repeating the Bush regime's horror show of unqualified appointments, of picking politicos over professionals. But here we go again.
Dan Brown | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
Wrap your arms around the testing mania of Joel Klein, or you're soft on accountability. Embrace Michelle Rhee's nuclear approach to administering schools, or you're a status quo-hugging wuss.
Dan Brown | Posted 01.05.2009 | Media
In his most recent op-ed, David Brooks offers Americans a false choice between two distinct camps of education interests. Here's hoping our new president will sweep aside that brand of discourse.
David Whitman | Posted 01.03.2009 | Home
Narrowing the racial achievement gap remains one of Barack Obama's top priorities, even in the midst of the nation's economic crisis. Yet for all of t...
Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
Because Obama is himself reflective, people conclude he can afford to surround himself with reckless brilliance. Not. He needs cabinet officers who are equally apt judges of people and policy.
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
At the critical point where young people should be connecting with college and 21st century careers, we rely on an outdated education system that evolved in the 1970s.
Huffington Post | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
***Check Back For Updates! For the latest news on the Obama cabinet, visit the Huffpo's Obama Cabinet Big News Page!*** Joel Klein, Chancellor of Ne...
Dan Brown | Posted 09.25.2008 | Media
In the past year, the national discussion on education has been elevated and informed by an anonymous blogger known as Eduwonkette. Her daily updated ...
Dan Brown | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
Since his election in 2001, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made narrowing the white-minority achievement gap in New York City his signature issue. After ...
Alan Singer | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York