By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. January 28, 2014 at 7:00 pm Everyone loves “choice,” right? In a country where in a single year there are more than 100 new choices for what to use to brush your teeth, it stands to reason [...]
Photograph; Schenk Elementary School fourth-grader Meadow Corfits solves a math problem on her classroom's chalkboard in this September 2013 file photo. By MATTHEW DeFOUR and MOLLY BECK | Originally Published at Wisconsin State Journal. January 28, 2014 Wisconsin’s lowest-performing public schools would be forced to close or [...]
We stand strong for the rights of all people; persons united are as a bundle of sticks, stronger when standing together. This is thought behind the effort to unionize Charter school Teachers and staff. To say this is wise may have been questioned. But the need cannot [...]
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan rides the bus with Columbus Elementary students to the Mexico-U.S. border in Columbus, N.M. on Sept. 10, 2013. | The Washington Post via Getty Images By Joy Resmovits| Originally Published at Huffington Post. January 27, 2014 President Barack Obama is widely expected [...]
By Andy Spears | Originally Published at Tennessee Education Report. January 27, 2014 Today, newly-formed education advocacy group TREE (Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence) hosted a presentation by Elaine Weiss of the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education. Weiss discussed recent Tennessee education policy in the context of the [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 25, 2014 When I responded to Students Should Be Tested More, Not Less by Jessica Lahey and the related target=new href=http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic951136.files/powerOfTestingMemory-roedigerKarpicke.pdf>study by Henry L. Roediger III and Jeffrey D. Karpicke, in the blog post [...]
Photograph; Kyle Thompson, 15, of Farmington, Michigan was arrested and kicked out of school after a tug-of-war with a teacher over a note. By Halimah Abdullah | Originally Published at Cable News Network [CNN]. Saturday, January 25, 2014 (CNN) -- A year ago, Kyle Thompson was a [...]
Graphic by Betsy L. Angert | AngertAesthetics By Catherine Gewertz | Originally Published at Education Week. January 24, 2014 12:23 AM | Download Letter to Secretary Arne Duncan, Department of Education [pdf] Schools chiefs from 34 states have banded together to make a public declaration that they [...]
By Les Leopold | Originally Published at AlterNet. Update at Huffington Post. November 8, 2013 5:59 AM EST Updated: January 23, 2014 6:58 PM EST There are 16.4 million American children living in poverty. That's nearly one quarter (22.6 percent) of all of our children. [...]
