by Jeff Bryant | May 13, 2014 | Blog, Education
So this one's personal for me. The day they bused the poor kids to my school was the first time I'd ever come face to face with children my age who were so poor they weren't properly clothed. It was the first time – in a society where I saw separate water fountains...
by Jeff Bryant | May 7, 2014 | Blog, Education
When members of the U.S. House of Representatives consider, beginning today, a bill to incentivize the expansion of charter schools, you can expect there to be a lot of heat but not very much light in their discussion of the need for more of these institutions. The...
by Derek Pugh | May 6, 2014 | Education, Student Debt Relief
Declaring that the burden of student loan debt is "an emergency," Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to introduce a bill that would allow graduates to refinance their loans at lower rates. “Student loan debt is exploding. And it...
by Derek Pugh | May 2, 2014 | Education
This week Senate Democrats will begin turning their attention to the 40 million Americans whose lives are being hampered by student loan debt. The goal is passage of a bill with a provision that will allow these Americans to refinance their loans at lower rates. Not...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog, Education
For most children, their first teacher is a parent or primary caregiver. And most teachers will tell you that parent behaviors in the home affect student learning in schools. So it would make sense to make sure education policy isn't strongly at odds with what we know...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog, Education
Would you like your job performance judged by a 5-year-old? That's a relevant question for public school teachers in Hawaii, where the state's new teacher evaluation system attributes 10 percent of their job performance rating on what children as young as 5 years old...
