by Jeff Bryant | Jul 27, 2011 | Blog, Education
Ask yourself if this is the type of school you'd like for your son or daughter: * At one charter school, an array of 48 "infractions"-- such as "Lying/falsehood” and "Sleeping in class" -- will get students suspended or expelled. * At another charter, students and...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 7, 2011 | Blog, Education
Down here on the ground in public schools, what school children, parents, and teachers are experiencing are the first tremors of what will likely be seismic shifts in the reality of our nation's education system. As teacher layoffs start to roll-out in Milwaukee, Los...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 30, 2011 | Blog, Education
Earlier this week, when a representative of the Beltway-based
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Education
As American public education arrives at the summer of its discontent, we have to contemplate how a system that has already had over 201,600 jobs wrung from its payrolls since August 2008 will handle the prospect of having to shed nearly a quarter of a million more...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 9, 2011 | Blog, Education
Just as climate scientists warn Americans to brace for a long hot summer, anyone paying attention to the nation's public schools can expect a summer of more of the same, heated cross-fire between the "reformist" politicians and pundits, and the growing population of...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 2, 2011 | Blog, Education
As educators close out this school year and go into planning mode for the next, what many of them truly dread is the fiscal nightmare being handed to them by miserly state governments who've decided to balance their budgets on the backs of helpless school children....
