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...
Charlie Rose | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
The American public school system has long been under scrutiny and in crisis. However, there is growing sentiment that large scale reform could be po...
Charlie Rose | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment
One of the key challenges that America faces is how to improve our educational system. I have recently begun a series of conversations, underwritten ...
Ben Terris | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
Talking politics with young people across the country has meant talking about education. "What works," says one, "is retaining teachers and recruiting volunteers, people to push the kids hard at school."
Gerald Bracey | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media
What is with the Washington Post? one week says that the Washington, D. C. voucher program doesn't work -- the next it runs an editorial begging Congress not to kill the program.
Dan Brown | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
Have you heard of Prep for Prep? It's a brilliant idea realized. Here's how it works: Every year for the past thirty years, approximately 150 low-inc...
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 06.09.2008 | Politics
Here is an interesting story from TIME.com that I highly recommend. I'll have more to say about "A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education" tomorrow. h...
Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 06.05.2008 | Life
The nearly octogenarian former Supreme is now in the digital game development business. She's involved in creating a free online game called "Our Courts" in which kids argue real legal issues applying real laws.
Dan Brown | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
Last week in Colorado, Barack Obama gave a truly incisive speech on improving education in America.
Susan Kaiser Greenland | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
In contrast to McCain's continued embrace of No Child Left Behind, and the nightmarish wave of fear and teaching to the test that has come in its wake, Obama has offered a nuanced approach.
Dan Brown | Posted 05.28.2008 | Life
If a brilliant idea slapped us in the face for how to help public school students achieve more, would we recognize it? Today, schools' everyday funct...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.23.2008 | Life
Last Wednesday more than 160 students in the South Bronx refused to take another standardized test. They are sick of being dragged out of their classrooms to be treated as lab rats in the No Child Left Behind rotten matrix.
Dan Brown | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
At last week's Ed in '08 Blogger Summit, I asked a question about alternatives to high-stakes testing to the education policy panel and received an an...
Dan Brown | Posted 05.21.2008 | Life
High-stakes testing has spiraled out of control and students are wise to the scheme. The reason we haven't seen more uprisings is that kids have been intellectually and spiritually bludgeoned into submission.
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.
Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.07.2008 | Life
On a measure of reading comprehension, Reading First students didn't do any better than students in similar schools without the program. How come?
Steve Young | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
Think No Child Left Behind is working? It is if your definition on "No Child" equates to 70% of our children. War has nothing on our failing educat...
Dan Brown | Posted 04.23.2008 | Life
How can we get fairer, more comprehensive measurements of our kids' academic achievement? All the scorched-earth essays in the world can't completely...
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.
Peter Dreier | Posted 04.02.2008 | Home
The involuntary resignation of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson this week provides an opportunity to underscore and distinguish the three major failings of the Bush administration.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 04.02.2008 | Home
Hillary is going to give it everything she's got, but an Obama spring is in the air. You could feel it on the bus tour.
Gerald Bracey | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
Some people play the No Child Left Behind game cynically, doing whatever it takes to get children close to the passing score and into the magic kingdom of "proficient."
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When Walk Score recently released their ranking of the ten most walkable U.S. cities there was no doubt that folks in places...
Here we go again. Oil prices tumbling "in the steepest four...
According to Psychology Today and referencing the American Journal of Psychiatry,...
Dan Brown | Posted 07.14.2008 | Life