The White House’s useless Race to the Top report
The White House this week released a report applauding the Obama administration’s $4.3 billion Race to the Top program, but it was so devoid of any actual substance that it makes you wonder why anybody thought this was a good way to promote the president’s signature education initiative. It’s hard to give a better description […]
One more thing there isn’t time for in kindergarten anymore
I’ve published a number of posts about the transformation — some would say the destruction — of kindergarten in this era of standardized test-based accountability. Play has been replaced with academic work, and young kids are tested ad nauseam and given little or no time for fanciful things like recess or art. But as bad as […]
Who should decide who is college material and who isn’t?
College, of course, isn’t for everybody, but who should decide — and how and when — which students should go and shouldn’t? In this post, Kevin Welner and Carol Burris ask whether the decision should be made by policy makers and school officials or parents and students after young people have had equitable opportunities to […]
3-25-14 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: The new extremists in education debateA member of the Ohio House of Representatives, Republican Rep. Andrew Brenner, wrote a post on his blog under this headline: “Public education in America is socialism, what is the solution?” He wrote in part: Parents send their children to public schools throughout the United States, to school districts funded by taxation. Most of the […]