by Jeff Bryant | Feb 5, 2014 | Education
If our nation's leaders made policy decisions on actual evidence, this matter would have been addressed a long time ago. This "matter" is the increasingly desperate state of the nation's youngest children and the callousness in the way they're being treated in our...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 29, 2014 | Education
Everyone loves "choice," right? In a country where in a single year there are more than 100 new choices for what to use to brush your teeth, it stands to reason that maximizing "choice" might be a goal for all kinds of enterprises. With that in mind, this week brought...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 22, 2014 | Education
Now that ed-heads have had a chance to make their "what to expect in 2014" prognostications, it's evident that one of the most tumultuous issues – perhaps the most tumultuous – for the year ahead is the fate of the Common Core State Standards. The Common Core –...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 15, 2014 | Education
Last week, the Obama administration took an important step for the well being of the nation's youth – especially those who are of racial minorities – by issuing new guidelines that many hope will shut down what has come to be known as "the school-to-prison pipeline."...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 8, 2014 | Education
All the reviews of last year's top education news stories are out and the consensus view is 2013 was a "pivotal year" for the nation's education policy, to quote Texas superintendent John Kuhn. The pivot from what to what has various interpretations, but 2013 was a...
