Two Percent Ain't Good Enough
Within 18 months of leaving the system, 1/4 of children in foster care will have been incarcerated, 1/5 will have experienced homelessness and 1/3 will suffer major depression.
Within 18 months of leaving the system, 1/4 of children in foster care will have been incarcerated, 1/5 will have experienced homelessness and 1/3 will suffer major depression.
Esther Wojcicki | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
Almost fifty percent of students in the fifty largest American cities drop out of high school. In some cities, there is over a seventy percent drop out rate. One consequence is an increase in crime and the prison rate.
FiveThirtyEight | Nate Silver | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Yesterday, I was sent an e-mail from the Stand for Marriage Maine campaign, which I signed up for under a secondary e-mail account. The message sugges...
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
"There are people who say that money doesn't really matter in public eduction. If it really doesn't matter, then we should equalize the expenditures. If it does matter, we should equalize the expenditures."
Gordon Campbell | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York
What would be the impact if we succeeded in lowering the dropout rate? How much better off will we all be if we succeed in our dropout prevention efforts?
Halle Tecco | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living
If we don't embrace creative and progressive thought in improving our school systems, we're going to fail all of our children.
Daniel Frank | Posted 10.09.2009 | Chicago
Colonel Francis Wayland Parker knew what President Obama knows: That advocating for public education is a patriotic and political act.
The Denver Post | Jeremy P. Meyer | Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver
Denver teachers overwhelmingly approved a revised contract that gives them a 2.5 percent cost-of-living raise plus they would receive a 1.65 percent s...
Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien | Posted 09.21.2009 | Denver
The Department of Education has $4.35 billion in Race to the Top funds. The stars are aligned: President Obama supports this change, it is a cornerstone of Gov. Bill Ritter's agenda and we have leaders who believe in public education.
Arthur E. Levine | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics
Today's schools are an anachronism. They resemble the assembly lines of the industrial era, when they were conceived. But the School of One turns the current model of education on its head.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business
I think I am. We earn a lot less salary-wise, but my child is in a great public school, we have great health care, live near free parks, museums, and the pollution level is down.
Anis Shivani | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Calling for some sort of decorous avoidance of politics during politicians' funerals is downright ridiculous. It'd be like eulogizing Charles Lindbergh and not mentioning airplanes.
New York Times | Jeremy W. Peters | Posted 08.17.2009 | New York
The State Senate shelved legislation that would preserve Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's control of New York City schools and adjourned for the summer ea...
Jenifer Fox | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living
Most of the labels we ascribe to children overlook what is right about children. We prefer to concentrate on labeling weaknesses.
Jim Rex | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
The No Child Left Behind Act allows each state to define for itself what "academically proficient" means, thus dramatic differences appear from one state to the next.
Alan McGee | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living
Whether to support the fundamental understanding the judicial system, or to inspire a career in politics or law, each DonorsChoose.org project reflects one teacher's hope for the future of their students.
AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — When school starts next fall, Teach for America will send an unprecedented number of college graduates to teach in poor communities...
Rabbi David Saperstein | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
Taxpayer dollars should go where they are needed most: to improve public education for all of our nation's children.
Steve Mariotti | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business
Many high schools have job placement programs to help their students, but rarely do we see the possibility of entrepreneurship presented as an option.
Diane Ravitch | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
Dubious strategies in New York public schools have puffed up the graduation rate by a few points, but the city's graduates arrive at community colleges unprepared for college-level work.
Christopher Mahoney | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
Having visited educational systems around the globe, I can tell you that merely offering the basics puts us on par with second-world societies and we're quickly sliding lower.
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics
School districts are a strange American anachronism -- no other country delivers public education through local authorities. This historical remnant is completely ineffective in urban America.
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
The $650 million portion of the US Education Department's stimulus bill supposedly devoted to innovation was written with three fatal flaws.
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
The US Education Department will soon be writing checks totaling more than $100 billion to states and districts. The success of Obama's first term hinges on how this money is spent.
Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living