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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Photograph By Tony Avelar/Bloomberg; A fifth grade student works on a social studies assignment at Bullis Charter School in Los Altos, California. Old news is not necessarily good or outdated news; nor is improvement inevitability. Indeed, in time, much deteriorates. Please consider the circumstance in Silicon Valley, [...]
We have become accustomed to its face. We hear the phrase "school choice" and say, what does that mean; it is but a theme for those who endorse more privatization. Could it be "school choice" is not what it seems? Perhaps it is an opportunity for a [...]
Photograph: Students at a magnet school in Chicago wait for the start of classes last year. | Scott Olson/Getty Images Originally Published at Pacific Standard: The Science of Society. November 28, 2010 5:00 AM Miller-McCune interviews two education experts about the promise and betrayal of diversity in [...]
Photograph; Tina Fineberg for The New York Times | Donald Fednyak in Astoria, Queens, holds a palm card given him by George Banning, canvassing for charter school advocates.| Copyright New York Times Over the last many years, Charter School growth soared exponentially. Parents preached. 'America's public schools [...]
