by Jeff Bryant | Feb 20, 2014 | Education
Last week, NBC News reported about a school near St. Louis that conducted an "active shooter drill" in which campus law officers and teachers instruct high schoolers on what to do “when you get shot." "'Close your fingers and keep ‘em in,'” they were told, because,...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 12, 2014 | Education
Legend has, political disputes are supposed to be resolvable only when parties "meet in the middle" and shake hands on points of agreement that are possible. But in the much-contested issue of "education reform," only one of the disputing parties in the debate tends...
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 Richard Long | Jan 17, 2014 | Education
Here’s a news flash for you that’s neither news nor flash: The majority of college graduates are coming out of school with student loan debt. Today, nearly 70 percent of college graduates come out of school saddled with an average debt of $29,400. Check out this map...
