by Jeff Bryant | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Education
As American public education arrives at the summer of its discontent, we have to contemplate how a system that has already had over 201,600 jobs wrung from its payrolls since August 2008 will handle the prospect of having to shed nearly a quarter of a million more...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 9, 2011 | Blog, Education
Just as climate scientists warn Americans to brace for a long hot summer, anyone paying attention to the nation's public schools can expect a summer of more of the same, heated cross-fire between the "reformist" politicians and pundits, and the growing population of...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 2, 2011 | Blog, Education
As educators close out this school year and go into planning mode for the next, what many of them truly dread is the fiscal nightmare being handed to them by miserly state governments who've decided to balance their budgets on the backs of helpless school children....
by Jeff Bryant | May 20, 2011 | Blog, Education
While America's political leaders happily take a meat axe to our nation's public school system, the national media continues to turn our gaze toward more pressing issues. But down here on the ground, the outlook for the nation's school children is looking grimmer and...
by Jeff Bryant | May 12, 2011 | Blog, Education
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,...
