A Pivotal Year For Education, What Now?
All the reviews of last year’s top education news stories are out and the consensus view is 2013 was a “pivotal year” for the nation’s education policy, to quote Texas superintendent John Kuhn. The pivot from what to what has various interpretations, but 2013 was a year when “an education uprising” made many left-leaning people’s [...]
The Education Story The Numbers Don’t Tell
As 2013 closed out, the education world was roiled by yet another controversy over the calculation and interpretation of statistical data used to govern teachers and school services. This controversy, coming to us from the nation’s capital, involved, according to the report in The Washington Post, “Faulty calculations of the ‘value’ that D.C. teachers added [...]
New Regulations Needed To Rein In For-Profit Colleges
The good news coming from the U.S. Department of Education recently is the effort to put tougher restrictions on for-profit scam colleges that rip off students, families, and the taxpayers. The bad news is that not all Democrats are behind this effort and pushing for the tighter restrictions. Think Progress last week passed along a [...]
Day Of Action Reveals Widespread Anger With Current Education Policies
“We have to fight for our children’s education.” Those words, from Philadelphia parent Kia Hinton, crystalized a national sentiment expressed during a Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education held on December 9 in over 100 sites across the country. The multiple events – held from Maine to San Francisco, New Orleans [...]