by Jeff Bryant | Nov 20, 2013 | Education
Building on President Obama's “Preschool for All Initiative” proposed earlier this year – that would dramatically expand access to prekindergarten programs for 4-year olds – Democratic leaders in both chambers last week introduced the "Strong Start for America's...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 12, 2013 | Education
It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry when an "All-Purpose-Pundit" at The New York Times takes it upon him/herself to write a commentary about education. "Thomas Friedman is infamous for his uninformed pieces on education," Larry Ferlazzo, a full-time...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 6, 2013 | Education
"I'm tired of you people. What do you want?" Those were the words New Jersey Governor Chris Christie used to respond to one of his constituents, a taxpayer, and a public servant of the state, who had the temerity to question the governor's leadership of the state's...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 29, 2013 | Education
This past week, two videos captured just about everything you need to know about the status of the movement known as "education reform." The first filmed event was a staged encounter between two prominent advocates for what is conventionally thought of to be "opposing...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 22, 2013 | Education
T.S. Eliot had it wrong. October is the cruelest month. Far crueler than Spring's "lilacs out of a dead land" Eliot wrote about in "The Waste Land" is a harvest season of failed crops. All that work and hope for this? "This" we confront is the empty yield from...
