The cart of testing is firmly before the horse of quality education in American schools, rather than the more appropriate other way around. It's creating an inertia that is all but impossible to change.

Race to the Top is more of the same. We need fresh ideas that lie outside of that box in which most so-called education reformers are currently packed.

It is inarguable that the quality and accessibility of public education has distinguished the United States from the rest of the world, and was directly responsible for our emergence as the global superpower.

While deficit hawks obsess over spending, private security companies, private spies, and private armies rule the tax dollar roost.

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Nobody in power seems to be listening to what teachers have to say about how best to improve public education. If we have to wait twenty years for Arne Duncan to see the light, it will be too late.

The result of these practices is a tragedy of national proportion in which our student population falls victim to an education system that is, at best, dysfunctional, and at worst, corrupt.

Latino children in the immigrant gateway states of the Southeast have a high chance of being in low-income families and linguistically-isolated households, but have lower rates of obesity and incarceration.

I visited the Sojourner Truth Academy for ninth-graders on Friday, June 18. When I asked a student who gave me a tour of the building what the best part of school was for him, he told me: "the teachers... but they're all leaving."

How much more evidence do we need before we conclude that charter schools aren't the panacea for America's public education woes that so many believe them to be?

Teachers who teach in poorly performing schools should get Congressional commendations just for showing up every day.