In President Obama's stunningly convincing reelection, only part of his education policies got reaffirmed -- the part he talked about most of the time during the campaign. more »
Way back at the beginning of this summer, an eternity it seems in this exhausting presidential campaign, The College Board launched its Don’t Forget Edcampaign to "get the candidates to prioritize education this election." more »
"So much for Democratic harmony," is the way Herold Meyerson chose to start his op-ed in The Washington Postanalyzing the ramifications of the current Chicago teachers strike on the well being of more »
In this week's round in the nation's presidential contest, education got tossed into the ring and slapped around by the opposing candidates and their spokespeople. Who won the round is anyone's guess, but poor education got mauled in the process and tossed into the spit bucket. more »
It was Teacher Appreciation Week this week. Unfortunately, someone forgot the appreciation part.
President Obama, for one, kicked off the week by proclaiming that from now on the week would also (instead?) be forever known as National Charter Schools Week.more »
Conventional wisdom among the Very Serious People in Washington DC has long maintained that the severely punitive nature of current policies governing America's public schools cannot be called an "attack"on those institutions or the teachers who inhab more »
Reflecting on last night's State of the Union address to the nation, most opinion outletsare 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 »
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 »
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 »
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