by Robert Borosage | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog, Education
[fve]https://youtu.be/2zMbspRhqJc[/fve] Turns out the teachers got it right. The wheels are falling off the so-called “education reform” project which dismissed the voices of teachers – and particularly their unions – with no little vitriol. Reformers offered clear,...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 30, 2015 | Blog, Education
Because of all the big money behind current education policies, it’s difficult to see any real break in the status quo, but anyone who believes that cracking down harder on neighborhood schools and pushing for privately operated charters are the necessary “reforms”...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 26, 2015 | Awards Gala 2015, Blog, Education
In 2004, Democrats were enraged when Rod Paige, U.S. Secretary of Education under George W. Bush, called teachers unions “terrorist organizations.” According to accounts written at the time, Paige made the remark “in a private White House meeting with governors while...
by Bernie Horn | Oct 26, 2015 | Blog, Education
Days ago, the U.S. Department of Education announced a dramatic policy shift on standardized testing of public school students. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, echoed by President Obama, admitted that a Council of the Great City Schools study was right—there is too...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 21, 2015 | Blog, Education
America's experiment with charter schools has thus far generated academic results that are mixed, at best. Another promise, that these schools would be more educationally "innovative," is also generally unfulfilled so far. Adding to those uncertainties posed by...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 20, 2015 | Blog, Education
Before Democratic Party presidential candidates readied for their first debate on CNN, they turned down an opportunity to meet at another forum. That meeting was to be hosted by ex-CNN anchorwoman Campbell Brown who now operates a media outlet, The Seventy Four, that...
