by Jeff Bryant | Feb 5, 2015 | Blog, Education
[From the Education Opportunity Network. Subscribe here.] Don't get too excited yet, but there are signs we may have finally turned a corner for the better in the war for public school financing. Recently, government officials and politicians – from the Beltway to the...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 29, 2015 | Blog
Where can Democrats find clarity in the current debate over how to rewrite No Child Left Behind legislation? For sure, we appear to be in the midst of is an education policy turmoil where instead of right and left "meeting in the middle," what we see instead are...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 23, 2015 | Blog, Education
A curious thing happened this week on Capital Hill: A politician said something about education that made sense. The "something" didn't come from President Obama. In the president's annual State of the Union address, "K-12 policy largely took a back seat," Education...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 21, 2015 | Blog
"We know we need to do something about students who are not achieving in our schools." That anxious appeal – along with its many variations – has become the refrain now firmly embedded in speeches and opinion columns about American public education. Yes! Do something....
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 16, 2015 | Blog, Education
Here's how ridiculous the nation's obsession with standardized testing has gotten: Last week Education Week reporter Catherine Gewertz came across a news item about a school in Florida that "forbid the flushing of toilets during testing … to cut down on the...
