Blogs: Quality Education


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Memo From Austerity Land To Teachers: Caring No Longer Counts

Although it's a bit early to know for sure, let's hope that 2012 is the year that the economic policies known as "austerity" finally crashed and burned. more »

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Obama, Democrats Still Grasping For A 'Populist Pitch' For Education

Reflecting on last night's State of the Union address to the nation, most opinion outlets are declaring that President Obama is now more overtly resorting to a "populist message" to rally Democrats and appeal to independents who are frustrated with st more »

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Romney Peddles Creative Destruction For America's School Children

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, notorious for his flip-flops on a broad array of issues, seems to maintain this tendency when he's addressing policies governing education and public schools. more »

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Why Accountants Should Not Run Schools

There's a reason why accountants traditionally wore green eyeshades. In their "vision-intensive, detail-oriented" work, they were prone to "eyestrain" caused by scrupulous attention to columns and rows of numbers on a ledger. Now, of course, the strain is lessened by the softer glow of a computer screen. more »

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Is Segregation The New "School Choice"?

I remember the day that the poor kids showed up at our school. It was in 1964.

Classes had already started, and I was in second grade, surrounded by my familiar friends from my mostly white, mostly well-to-do, suburban neighborhood in North Dallas. more »

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Progressive Breakfast

On the menu this morning:

  • Morning Message: America's Family Un-Friendly Economy
  • Bulldozing Obstruction: Obama's Recess Appointments
  • Fixing Our Dysfunctional Economy
  • Conservative Crazy: The GOP Primary Circus Continues
  • Right-Wing Watch
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    It's Boxing Day!

    For a ten-year stretch in my life I was fortunate to spend every Christmas in Jamaica. In Jamaica, Christmas is a far more modest affair than it is here in the US. For sure, during the days leading up to “the Christmas,” the markets are packed with shoppers and the transports whizzing up and down the coastal road are stuffed to over-flowing with passengers. more »

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    When Lessons From Education 'Reform' Go Unlearned

    One good thing you can say about 2011 is that it is a year in which lots of wrong-headed undertakings finally came to their ignominious conclusions -- including, among others, the Iraq War, the Gadhafi regime, the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, and "The Oprah Winfrey Show".

    Also among the train-wrecks is undoubtedly our failed national education policy, No Child Left Behind. more »

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    What Happens When The Edu-Bubble Bursts?

    Heard the term "edu-bubble" yet? Chances are you will soon. more »

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    Republicans, 'Reformers' Open New Fronts In The War On Childhood

    Normally, it would be apparent to all that Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich forgot the first rule of holes when he recently doubled-down on his more »

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