RNC To Discuss Growing Opposition To Controversial Common Core Curriculum Originally Published at The Illinois Review April 11, 2013 Los Angeles - The concerns about the federal Common Core curriculum and the national standards it would impose on local schools reached the level of the Republican National [...]
Is there a “corporate education reform” movement? Whether we identify ourselves as a Tea Partier or a Wall Street Occupier we would likely say yes. Does that mean that all "education reformers" are corporateers or that all education reform measures are corporate in intent? That question invites [...]
By Tom Arcaro | Originally Published at Richmond Times Dispatch. April 7, 2013 12:00 AM “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render them safe, their minds must be improved to [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at the Becoming Radical. March 31, 2013 Writing in Newsweek (1980, January 21) in the cusp of America’s shift into the Reagan era of conservatism that included the roots of the current education reform movement built on accountability, standards, [...]
Working Together For Effective Reform In America's Public Schools Mostly we hear bickering; we play the blame game. In education, the topic thought to be the great uniter we see divisiveness more than we might imagine. The "Right" and "Left" split along party lines while each [...]
Photograph; Parents who lost children to gun violence gather at Chicago police headquarters to demand that Chicago police detectives solve their cases. [Photo by Carlos Javier Ortiz / Wonderful Machine] Have you ever witnessed a disaster? Where you troubled, shaken to your core, reminded of the need [...]
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 [...]
The times have changed. Poverty is less prominent in the news. President Johnson's Great Society Plan is a thing of the past. The War On Poverty that brought into being the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has long since evolved. President Johnson and Congress, at the time, [...]
Bill Gates and Iwan Streichenberger, CEO of nonprofit inBloom Inc., discuss the potential for personalized learning technology to transform classrooms during Gates' keynote at SXSWedu, in Austin, Texas. Consider the course of your life. At an early age you were set on a path. When asked, "what [...]
