 | Administration must acknowledge and address the growing crisis in the Black community |
| John A. Powell - 04/16/2010 07:49 AM | |
| Heaster Wheeler, Executive Director of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP, also contributed to this article. The recent employment figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that Black unemployment is on the rise again (returning to 16.5%). These figures remind us that the persistent ... | |
 | Cash-Strapped U Of California Spends Millions On Bottled Water |
| Leah Finnegan - 04/16/2010 07:21 AM | |
| The University of California system, drenched in economic peril, has resorted to exorbitant student fee increases and significantly changed its admissions policies to ease its money woes. But the dire finances of the system are still not enough to get it to drink tap water. The New York Times repo... | |
 | The New Learning Landscape |
| Tom Vander Ark - 04/16/2010 01:44 AM | |
| This week I talked to: • an education author, a blogger, and consultant; • two districts executing a multi-provider portfolio strategy; • a charter management organization, a charter network and an online provider; • a former state commissioner and two state education officials; • an impac... |
 | The Sky is Not Falling at CalSTRS |
| Ed Derman - 04/15/2010 08:42 PM | |
| California's public pension systems have come under fire recently by several studies. One of the reports, by students at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Institute, recommends that public pensions be cut by nearly half their expected rate of return. The state's taxpayers will have... |
 | Get a College Education for Free |
| Esther Wojcicki - 04/15/2010 07:53 PM | |
| Worried about college costs? College does not need to cost thousands of dollars per year. Now there is an online university where students can go for free. The only fees are for application and examination processing--both of which are nominal. Meet the University of the People, a nonprofit with... | |
 | California's Model "Newocrat": David Crane's Crusade for Pension Reform and High-Speed Rail |
| Nathan Gardels - 04/15/2010 07:37 PM | |
| Recently, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote an interesting article in which he argued that the "just-say-no-to-everything-except-lower-taxes-and-more-drilling" Republican dogma no longer fits the challenges of the 21st century. Nor does the New Deal project of continuing to expand entitle... | |
 | Closing the Rubber Rooms |
| Michael Mulgrew - 04/15/2010 06:43 PM | |
| Rubber rooms, where New York City teachers can sit for years while being investigated or while going through a hearing process, don't work for anyone. They don't work for schools, students or teachers. Fixing this problem has been a high priority for me ever since I became President of the UFT eigh... | |