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 [...]
We can do it! Without a penny more being spent, we can seriously and sincerely invest in public college education. But we do not. Why is that? Consider the culture, the climate and the chance that we might embrace change and you might find some [...]
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 [...]
Photograph; Art Threat Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert As children most of us are told to trust the police. He is friendly. She walks the beat. He knows your mother. She looks after your father's shop when he cannot be there out on the street. 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 [...]
We hear it said, things have changed or they have remained the stayed the same. How could that be? Contemplate our communities and it is evident that we have a colorful past. People are divided by race, religion, party rule, and cruel. It is well-known that we [...]
By Michael Meurer | Originally Published at TruthOut. February 22, 2013 10:30 After the mass murder of 20 children and 6 teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, by a disturbed 20-year-old on December 14, 2012, the dominant media narrative quickly turned into a national [...]
