CampusSplash: The 5 New Semester Resolutions Every College Student Needs *By CampusSplash.com blogger and National Society of Collegiate Scholars Founder Steve Loflin.* Do you make new year's resolutions? Do you look at January 01 as the opportunity to revisit, refresh and recommit to your priorities? Do you want to always ...
John Merrow: More on Teacher Bashing -- Getting Proactive Last week in this space I wondered why the President had singled out for high praise a school in Denver where the teachers had taken on their own union to get work rules relaxed. *Was he, I asked, sending a not-very-subtle message to teacher unions, ...
Michele Somerville: When 'Failing' Schools Close and Whiter, Brighter Schools Open Two weeks ago, the NYC DOE PEP (New York City Department of Education Panel for Educational Policy) voted to open Millennium Brooklyn (aka "Apartheid High") a "selective" school in a building (located in my middle-class neighborhood) wherein three ...
CampusSplash: The 5 New Semester Resolutions Every College Student Needs *By CampusSplash.com blogger and National Society of Collegiate Scholars Founder Steve Loflin.* Do you make new year's resolutions? Do you look at January 01 as the opportunity to revisit, refresh and recommit to your priorities? Do you want to always ...
Lee Kolbert: Grading Parents: My Thoughts and Predictions (Partial Parody) Florida State Representative Kelli Stargel filed a bill last week that would require elementary school teachers (grades K-3) to assess parents on the quality of their involvement in their children's education. They would be scored on how they respond ...
Marc Prensky: The Reformers Are Leaving Our Schools in the 20th Century In his State of the Union, President Obama rightly proclaimed that we need to "out-educate." But what he should have added is that "We can't win the future with the education of the past." Despite the good intentions of the President, Arne Duncan, Bill ...