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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

New Extremists In The Education Debate Education Opportunity Network

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New Extremists In The Education Debate


For people who like to think of themselves as being “exceptional,” Americans can sometimes abandon the very principles their exceptionality is founded on. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the current debate of education policy. A feature that has long made America’s public school system exceptional for sure is its governance through democratically elected [...]


Hey Congress, Show Us The Money For Pre-K


If our nation’s leaders made policy decisions on actual evidence, this matter would have been addressed a long time ago. This “matter” is the increasingly desperate state of the nation’s youngest children and the callousness in the way they’re being treated in our austerity-loving, market competitive culture. There’s also evidence there is something we could [...]


The Beginning Of An End To Sanction-Driven Education?


Last week, the Obama administration took an important step for the well being of the nation’s youth – especially those who are of racial minorities – by issuing new guidelines that many hope will shut down what has come to be known as “the school-to-prison pipeline.” This action – welcome, for sure – constitutes a [...]