During the past decade, while scrambling to fill for Back to School requirements, I became aware of an intriguing fact: The List is the same everywhere. Why have conspiracy theorists not jumped onto this bandwagon?
Jamie Lee Curtis | Posted 07.23.2008 | Living
We are Americans and we are getting an F in educating our children. Wake up and smell the global competition. We need to let our elected leaders know that education is the most important issue in this election.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
While Azar Nafisi's bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran, chronicled her efforts to teach forbidden Western literature, most Americans would be hard pressed to recall a single novel from Nafisi's native country.
Martin Carnoy | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Maybe we could learn something from the Cubans about the rights we deny many of our children -- a safe environment, decent health care, and schools that guarantee them high levels of learning
Gerald Bracey | Posted 06.22.2008 | Entertainment
Toward the end, when the Indian or Chinese kids were on the screen, I wanted to yell at it: "Get a Life!" Not as a put-down, but as a wake up call.
Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.30.2008 | Living
From the political left or right, we should be able to come together around the idea that it's bad to use psychiatric drugs to control children. There are better ways.
Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.22.2008 | Living
One of the reasons that public schools are held in low esteem is that their successes are not celebrated.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living
ABC News reports on the findings of a study that concluded 16% of U.S. science teachers are Creationists, and that, disturbingly, one in eight are tea...
Dave Johnson | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
The people of California need to understand that a choice was made yesterday to continue to be the only state that allows oil companies to pump our oil and not pay anything for it.
Dave Johnson | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
Today in California we are facing a budget shortfall. And instead of asking oil companies and others to give back a bit we are on the verge of deciding instead to cut our school budget.
Dave Johnson | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics
Governor Schwarzenegger has declared a "fiscal emergency" and is asking the legislature to solve the problem entirely with budget cuts.
Diane Ravitch | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
What was the Sandia report and why does it matter? And how did I allegedly conspire to "suppress" it?
Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics
Instead of moaning about people suing the school system, what if the City's Department of Education created a couple of schools for children with disabilities modeled on the private schools' success?
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland Clinic official says Democratic U.S....
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
USA Today reports that inventors, despite the clashing designs of airplanes...
There are over 6 billion people of people on the...
Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
NAPLES, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without...
Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living