By John Higgins | Originally Published at The Seattle Times. December 12, 2013 Supporters and opponents of Washington’s new charter-school law both saw good news in a judge’s ruling today that found part of the charter law unconstitutional. Both sides agree King County Superior Court Judge Jean [...]
Photograph; Renee Wyman, a paid signature checker for the state elections office, counts signatures for the charter school Initiative 1240 in July 2012 in the State Elections Office in Olympia. (Anna Marum/Murrow News Service) By Manuel Valdes, Associated Press | Originally Published at The Columbian. December 12, [...]
By Valerie Strauss | Originally Published at The Washington Post. Updated: December 12 at 5:00 am Education reform policy around the country is increasingly being made in secret or without public input — and with a lot of private philanthropic money. A number of recent stories reveal [...]
Photograph; The study shows that by age 4, children in families living with incomes under 200 percent of the federal poverty line have less gray matter — brain tissue critical for processing of information and execution of actions — than kids growing up in families with higher [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Campaign For America's future. December 11, 2013 “We have to fight for our children’s education.” Those words, from Philadelphia parent Kia Hinton, crystallized a national sentiment expressed during a Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education held [...]
Photograph; Mayor Rahm Emanuel convinced his allies to block a vote on sending more TIF funds back to the schools. Alex Wroblewski/Sun-Times Media Democracy is but a dream that has not come true. In 2013, we move further from freedom at an unprecedented and perilous speed. This [...]
Photograph; A Silicon Valley company co-founded by a Stanford artificial-intelligence professor, Sebastian Thrun, and San Jose State University were part of an experiment on massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that turned into a flop. Massive Open Online Courses, often described as MOOC are not merely a [...]
Irene Robinson stands outside Overton Elementary School on the South Side of Chicago on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. Robinson, who attended this school as a child, is upset that the school was among 47 public schools that closed in the city in June. Her grandchildren attended the [...]
Teachers across Onondaga County wore blue today as part of a National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education. Van Duyn Elementary students, from left to right, Harmony Allison-Lemon, a kindergartener, Edith Hill, a first grader, Elijah Wright, a second grader, and Janae Robinson, [...]
