Nine Myths About Public Schools
The schools were to blame for letting the Russians get into space first: Granddaddy of all slanders and a great illustration of the absolute nuttiness with which people talk about education.
The schools were to blame for letting the Russians get into space first: Granddaddy of all slanders and a great illustration of the absolute nuttiness with which people talk about education.
Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 09.18.2009 | Local
In Los Angeles, we have shown that even in schools that have been neglected for decades, when you raise standards and hold schools accountable, the kids will respond.
Lorraine Forte | Posted 08.10.2009 | Chicago
Transform every school into a charter and you'll still have to solve the equation: How to educate students, especially students who often face troubled home lives and come to school woefully unprepared to learn.
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.
New York Times | Posted 06.29.2009 | Local
After several months of delays, a Web site that offers an interactive portfolio of public school students' test scores, grades and attendance rates wi...
Gerald Bracey | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
Perhaps the misperceptions on the strength of the economy by our national "leaders" are why the U.S. just failed the Global Competitiveness Stress Test.
Dennis Danziger | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living
What I remember most about Ms. Fitzgerald's class is that when I wasn't staring at the clock, I was deciding which of my body parts to rip off and hand her in protest.
Martin Carnoy | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics
The assertion that we don't know what makes good teachers before trying them out for a few years while measuring their students' test gains is simply not true.
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...
Gerald Bracey | Posted 12.14.2008 | Living
The US has more than double the number of students scoring at the highest level in the science assessment of the Programme of International Student Assessment than any other OECD nation.
Disgrasian | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
An as-yet-to-be-authenticated, high school transcript of Sarah Palin's was posted on Gawker Thursday, and it's a doozy. Apparently, Sarah Palin scored an 841 out of 1600.
Gerald Bracey | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics