Public Schools Get a Boost Today: AFT Elects President Randi Weingarten
Today in Chicago, Randi Weingarten was elected president of the American Federation of Teachers, a union with a membership of over 1.4 million. Our c...
Today in Chicago, Randi Weingarten was elected president of the American Federation of Teachers, a union with a membership of over 1.4 million. Our c...
Dan Brown | Posted 06.20.2008 | Entertainment
Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond are too smart to offer up any magic bullets. Their fascinating documentary puts viewers inside Baltimore's Frederick Douglass High School for a full school year.
Pedro Noguera | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home
A new task force of national policy experts with diverse religious and political affiliations, in public policy fields including education, social wel...
Dan Brown | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
Last week in Colorado, Barack Obama gave a truly incisive speech on improving education in America.
Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
Those who are trying to stoke the presidential candidates' interest in education as an election issue aren't having much luck. Not that the public would be paying attention anyway.
Dan Brown | Posted 05.13.2008 | Media
It's been my great pleasure to help to stir the pot about issues affecting students, teachers, and families in America.
Dan Brown | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
McCain's threadbare talking points on education offer prime ammunition for Democrats to help define his candidacy as Bush's third term.
Gary Stager | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
When overseas colleagues criticize American foreign policy, I've been known to respond, "If you like Iraq, you'll love what the Bush administration has done to public education."
Gerald Bracey | Posted 04.21.2008 | Life
The body count from No Child Left Behind grows daily and one wonders when the perpetrators will be called to account. In a decent nation, the larger society holds the government accountable.
Dan Brown | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
Life and education are too complicated for single letter grades. A smarter, nuanced alternative is within New York's grasp.
David Simon | Posted 03.17.2008 | Media
Let's happily concede that all criticism stands and get to the real fun: something happened in season five of The Wire when almost no one -- among the working press, at least -- was looking.
AP | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics
TEMPE, Ariz. — Former President Clinton said that if his wife is elected president she would radically change the "No Child Left Behind Act," wh...
Scott Page | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
The truth is that the ability of the next generation of Americans to meet the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the day won't rest on how well they individually did on their SATs.
Dan Brown | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics
It's politically inconvenient for Washington to recognize that some high schools may tacitly encourage failing students to drop out so that the schools' test scores don't have to include their low marks.
Bruce Kluger | Posted 12.19.2007 | Life
As we earnestly try to fix what's broken, we are, in the process, turning an entire generation of children into a giant flock of canaries in the coal mine.
Gerald Bracey | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
Is the sound you just heard the Department of Education building a massive wall against reality? If we're making progress, how come it doesn't show up on the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study?
Bill Maher | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics
New Rule: In the next fifteen months, President Bush has to perform at least one act that doesn't make money for someone he knows.
Dan Brown | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics
New drafts of No Child Left Behind could contain the best ideas in education history, but they won't work in the long run unless we address the biggest crisis in our schools.
Dan Brown | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics
The current culture of living and dying with the all-important test has thus led to widespread bar-lowering, and obsessing.
Peter Sacks | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics
As currently structured, the American education system is organized to serve elite interests at the expense of children and families at the bottom.
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Dan Brown | Posted 07.14.2008 | Life