By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah | Originally Published at Chicago Tribune May 16, 2013 The Chicago Teachers Union's decision to go to court to try to stop the city from closing 53 elementary schools, while not unexpected, makes clear that the Board of Education's vote on the proposal [...]
Originally Published by Deb Meier on April 28, 2013 Friends, The continued existence of democracy, much less an even stronger one, is what is in a crisis. The “school crisis”, along with many others, is a distraction. Just a symptom of the more serious crisis we face. [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at Alternet . March 18, 2013 | Photograph Credit: Shutterstock.com/YanLev U.S. public education has a long relationship with pursuing high standards for students, teachers, and schools, reaching back to the Committee of Ten in the 1890s proposing a uniform [...]
Photograph; The Bronx High School of Science is one of eight schools in New York for which a shared exam is the sole criterion for entrance. A federal complaint regarding this policy was filed on Thursday. By Al Baker | Originally Published The New York Times. September [...]
Drawing By James Stevenson. By Jonah Lehrer | Originally Published at The New Yorker. June 12, 2012 Editors’ Note: The introductory paragraphs of this post appeared in similar form in an October, 2011, column by Jonah Lehrer for the Wall Street Journal. We regret the duplication of [...]
We want to believe that our children's education resides in the hands of professionals. We place our confidence in our Teachers. Paid pedagogues, we think guide policy. We might never imagine that it is we who entrust our youth to profiteers; yet when confronted with the numbers [...]
