by Jeff Bryant | Jan 15, 2014 | Education
Last week, the Obama administration took an important step for the well being of the nation's youth – especially those who are of racial minorities – by issuing new guidelines that many hope will shut down what has come to be known as "the school-to-prison pipeline."...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 8, 2014 | Education
All the reviews of last year's top education news stories are out and the consensus view is 2013 was a "pivotal year" for the nation's education policy, to quote Texas superintendent John Kuhn. The pivot from what to what has various interpretations, but 2013 was a...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 26, 2013 | Education
As 2013 closed out, the education world was roiled by yet another controversy over the calculation and interpretation of statistical data used to govern teachers and school services. This controversy, coming to us from the nation's capital, involved, according to the...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 18, 2013 | Education
The good news coming from the U.S. Department of Education recently is the effort to put tougher restrictions on for-profit scam colleges that rip off students, families and the taxpayers. The bad news is that not all Democrats are behind this effort and pushing for...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 11, 2013 | Education
"We have to fight for our children's education." Those words, from Philadelphia parent Kia Hinton, crystalized a national sentiment expressed during a Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education held on December 9 in over 100 sites across the country. The...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 4, 2013 | Education
This week's media extravaganza over the latest results from the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, were the latest distraction from what really matters for the nation's education policy. As Valerie Strauss put it on her blog at The Washington Post,...
