by Jeff Bryant | Nov 11, 2011 | Blog, Education
With the collapse of the No Child Left Behind policy that has driven American education policy for at least the past decade, one would think that our nation's leaders would pause to consider the faulty thinking that brought this erroneous policy to life to begin with....
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 2, 2011 | Blog, Education
Imagine you’re a parent of a seven-year-old who has just come home from school with her end-of-year report card. And the report card provides marks for only two subjects, and for children who are in grade-levels different from hers. Furthermore, there's nothing on the...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 27, 2011 | Blog, Education
Now that the mandate to run our nation's schools according to No Child Left Behind has utterly collapsed, and many of the best minds are suggesting that we move on, there is still a prevailing contingency seeking to not just prop up but expand many of the tenants of...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 19, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Education
Last week's release of the report Starving America's Schools: How Budget Cuts and Policy Mandates Are Hurting Our Nation's Students set the stage for this week's chorus line calling for the U.S. Senate to pass a bill to fund teachers' jobs across the country. We know...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 13, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Education
Even after writing the headline to this post I have to wonder, "Is this a point that even has to be made?" But in light of events in Washington, DC this week, I have to answer, "Yes." Because just as lawmakers in the White House and Congress were hard at work crafting...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 13, 2011 | Blog, Education
By the time that July slips slowly off the calendar, events this month -- culminating with an upcoming teacher/parent-organized march on the nation's capital -- will have clarified all too well the lay of the land in the debate on the fate of our nation's public...
