When Maya Angelou blasted Obama’s school-reform policies
The legendary poet and author Maya Angelou, who just passed away at the age of 86, was a big supporter of President Obama, and in 2011, he awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. But she also was a critic of his school-reform policies, raising her voice last year to blast […]
WiFi in U.S. schools estimated cost: $4 billion to meet Obama’s goal
President Obama’s vision of ensuring that 99 percent of American K-12 schools have broadband and WIFI by 2018 is going to be mighty expensive. The Federal Communications Commission received an estimate Wednesday of how much money it will take: $800 million a year for five years for a total $4 billion. The estimate came from […]
Jim Carrey gives commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management
Jim Carrey surprised graduates at the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, with a funny, emotional commencement speech in which he told them a poignant story about his father and urged them to walk their own path in life and never settle. “The decisions we make in this moment are based in either love […]
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Send in questions, comments for live online education chat at 1 p.m. Wednesday
I’ll be doing a live online education chat on washingtonpost.com at 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 28. Please submit questions, comments, concerns, suggestions, jokes or whatever here, and tune in then or read the transcript later. Here are transcripts of some of my previous online chats: here, here, here, and here.
The Answer Sheet 5-27-14
Answer Sheet: Is Boston’s school district eliminating history department as part of Common Core?The Boston public schools district found itself in the position of having to issue a public statement denying that it was eliminating its history and social studies department after someone posted on the Web that it was and the news went viral in the education world. Historians assumed it was true and r