By David Greene | Originally Published in The New York Times, April 30, 2013 To the Editor: What makes a great teacher? Not every college graduate is cut out to teach, regardless of his or her innate intelligence, G.P.A. or previous career success. Only those with specific [...]
Photo Credit: Brad Jonas -- NSFW Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org) | Originally Published in Not Safe for Work Corporation (1) April 26, 2013/ By Yasha Levine (2) | This article first appeared at Not Safe for Work Corporation (3). As you read please consider how you have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The following is Part II of the transcript of a speech Noam Chomsky delivered in February on "The Common Good." Click here to read Part I. Let’s turn to the assault on education, one element of the general elite reaction to the civilizing effect of the [...]
By Peter Dreier | Originally Published at Moyers and Company. March 2, 2013 For years, Los Angeles has been ground zero in an intense debate about how to improve our nation’s education system. What’s less known is who is shaping that debate. Many of the biggest contributors [...]
If only there were a solution “lying around” to attach to this crisis. By Kenzo Shibata | Originally Published at Jaconbin Magazine. February 22, 2013| Photographic Credit; Chicago 2012 — Greg Wass / Flickr In public policy circles, crises are called “focusing events” — bringing to light [...]
As long as I can remember, there has been a perennial plea for black people to enter the teaching profession, and many of us enthusiastically headed this righteous call. However, as the nation's population and students have grown more diverse, the teaching force has done the [...]
