As educators close out this school year and go into planning mode for the next, what many of them truly dread is the fiscal nightmarebeing handed to them by miserly state governments who've decided to balance their budgets on the backs of helpless school children. more »
While America's political leaders happily take a meat axeto our nation's public school system, the national media continues to turn our gaze toward more »
Any experienced first-grade teacher can tell you how to spot the new kids in class who've never been exposed to books. They often don't know where to start with a book, turning to the back page or holding it the wrong way. Sometimes they ignore books altogether and, when being read to, fidget nervously or act out inappropriately. more »
Now that No Child Left Behind has become the butt of popular ridicule, and the prospect of forging a new consensus on education policy in DC seems doubtful,
To all those out there who are clamoring for "market-based"approaches to education reform, please tell me this: What kind of a business slashes inventory in the face of increasing demand? more »
Last week, President Obama gave us a clear perspective of what's wrong with current education policies and a positive vision for where they should be going. more »
It’s getting really hard to look at the distorted rhetoric of today’s debate about public schools and NOT see it in the same whorish light as other political discussions of the day. more »
Imagine taking your child to her first day of kindergarten and finding out that there won’t be a teacher for the class of 30 children until October. more »
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