WINNERS: Obama campaign staff: they threaded the needle for 22 months and then (some) got plum DPC jobs. Win! Arne Duncan: from nearly-c...
Yahoo! News | Stacy Teicher Khadaroo | Posted 01.29.2009 | Living
Jeremy Kennefick and Geoffrey Gailey are both new science teachers, one a career-changer, the other fresh out of graduate school. Both are teaching in...
SaraKay Smullens | Posted 01.27.2009 | Living
I find myself looking back and remembering those who showed me enormous kindness -- as well as opportunities for kindness to those I had not been deeply involved with.
Robert Drago | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics
We need to spend federal money now to help jump-start employment and incomes, but once we are spending money, we should devote it to something worthwhile.
Alexander Russo | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago
Like Bush's Education Secretary pick Rod Paige, Arne Duncan comes from a big city with a success story that the national press failed to figure out was mostly a mirage.
Robert Rose | Posted 01.14.2009 | Living
It is important to motivate teachers whose classes are challenged to think about what it is that they do that turn kids off. The kids can't be held totally accountable.
David Horton | Posted 01.13.2009 | Living
Call me naive if you must, but I see a teacher's role as being the central truth-teller in a child's life.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics
President-elect Barack Obama wants to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild this country's neglected infrastructure. He's right. It's really a no-brainer.
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 01.02.2009 | Living
There's nothing more thrilling than watching a first grader string sounds and words together and then beam with pride and understanding, "I'm reading!"
Robert Rose | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living
I watched and it proved my stance on homework. It creates an adversarial relationship between the parents, between the parents and child, and between the family and the teacher.
Tom Cosgrove | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama, in a pre-election speech, told the story of a teacher he encountered who complained of a "these kids" syndrome - the tendency to explain...
Dan Brown | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
Weingarten's speech was an impassioned call to spare the hatchet -- or scalpel -- in federal funding for education.
Marc Lampkin | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
The need for improving our education system has never been greater. The rest of the world is catching up with us competitively, threatening our economic and national security.
Martin Carnoy | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
Here is what puzzles me: none of what you and Graham Keegan claim for vouchers is based on any available evidence.
Marc Lampkin | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
When was the last time a teachers' union sued to demand higher academic standards? When has a teachers' union ever demanded more accountability in our classrooms?
Dan Brown | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living
Classrooms are ready-made for great stories. Comprised of twenty-some children and one adult, bound by a common mission, they are intersections of you...
Esther Wojcicki | Posted 11.11.2008 | Media
More states need to pass laws like California's protecting student rights to free speech and making the workplace safer for teachers.
Darryle Pollack | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
Based on the debate, what would a 5th grader think about what they are learning in school? They might believe that what we tell them is true: anyone in America can grow up to be president.
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.01.2008 | Living
I've written a lot about sleep-deprived parents, kids, and students, but I don't think I've given teachers the nod lately, if ever. According to...
Randi Weingarten | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
Good teachers usually have good ideas about what it takes to better their schools, help other teachers, or improve education across their communities. But turning those good ideas into reality isn't easy.
Esther Wojcicki | Posted 09.25.2008 | Living
Tthe National Writing Project together with Google Docs is sponsoring a program called Letters to Our Next President, to encourage young Americans to write to the candidates.
Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 09.14.2008 | Living
Attention everyone who has legal custody of school-age children! Just in time for the 2008-09 academic year, I announce the opening of New Paradigm A...
Dan Brown | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living
What happens when a teacher decides to disregard the canned standards and the stacks of test prep materials? Do the students wallow in ignorance, cheated out of a proper education by an "activist" teacher?
Esther Wojcicki | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
Anyone in San Antonio, Texas last week would have thought that American education had entered a new digital age.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
John McCain's speechwriters must have done some homework on reaching out to Latino voters. In his speech before the League of United Latin American Ci...
Alexander Russo | Posted 02.02.2009 | Media