Originally Published on January 30, 2013. By Valerie Strauss. The Answer Sheet. Washington Post. A nonprofit group released thousands of e-mails today and said they show how a foundation begun by Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and national education reform leader, is working with public officials [...]
By Leon Wieseltier | Originally Published at The New Republic. December 21, 2012 WHEN I LOOK BACK at my education, I am struck not by how much I learned but by how much I was taught. I am the progeny of teachers; I swoon over teachers. Even [...]
By Pauline Lipman, Ph.D. | Originally Published at The New York Times. September 12, 2012 9:34 AM Photographic Credit; Posters saying "Save our School" line the windows at Overton Elementary. Under CPS's closing proposal, Overton students would be sent to Mollison. Both schools are on probation. As [...]
Americans love their freedom and the freedom to choose – well that is the best. We want to choose our cars, our sushi bars; we want the optimal plan. When it comes to our children there can be no exception. Parents will do anything to ensure that [...]
Illustration by Andreas Samuelsson. Photograph by Thomas Hannich When old is new again and new is old the conversation must be about education. Throughout our history people have fought for the right to educate all equally and then turned the mission over to the masters, the moguls, [...]
Photograph; AP/Getty Images By Noam Chomsky | Originally Published at In These Times. April 4, 2012 One of America’s greatest achievements is being defunded and degraded by the dictates of the marketplace. Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Our Future. January 6, 2012 I remember the day that the poor kids showed up at our school. It was in 1964. Classes had already started, and I was in second grade, surrounded by my familiar friends from my mostly [...]
Often we know well what is. We experience the trials and tribulations that today, we call education reform. But how did we get here? What was it that occurred? Let us look at our history.Los Angeles: The Proving Ground of Education Reform By Catherine Cloutier | Originally [...]
By Catherine Cloutier | Originally Published at News 21. USC Annenberg. School of Communication and Journalism | Interact with the Shadow Secretaries of Education Click for Interactive Image When Microsoft magnate Bill Gates decided a decade ago that the “solution” to what he [...]
