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The iconic Helen Keller once famously stated, “The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.” Today we are awash with political leaders who can’t see past their own focus groups. With respect to solving our education crisis, politicians and policy experts call for all sorts of accountability measures and rating metrics. But no one is asking the really big question: “What is our mission?”
Aren’t we supposed to begin with the end in mind? The main problem quite simply is that we have no vision, no guiding blueprint for education. We are completely in the dark compared with Keller, a suffragist and social activist.
Quick, ask anyone in the system from the superintendent to a principal to a teacher, “What is
The Colorado Education Association may be the 800-pound education group in Colorado politics, but that doesn’t mean other interest groups aren’t trying to weigh in on 2010 legislative races.
District-by-district lists
See the bottom of this article for charts listing education group endorsements in House and Senate districts.
To get a sense for who’s supporting whom, Education News Colorado reviewed legislative candidate contributions by the CEA-affiliated Public Education Committee and the AFT Colorado Federation of Teachers, School, Health and Public Employees Small Donor Committee, along with endorsements or contributions by three other groups.
Those are the Colorado Association of School Executives, a federation of school administrator groups, which
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An infusion of federal economic stimulus funding will allow San Diego State University to enroll up to 852 local students currently on the university’s waiting list.
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A decade after Larry Rosenstock helped start an innovative and rigorous technology-savvy charter school in Point Loma, he has been named as one of three recipients of the prestigious 2010 Harold W. McGraw Hill Prize in Education.
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Carol Padden, a UCSD professor whose childhood experience led her to specialize in sign language and deaf culture, has been awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation grant.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Monday signed three bills generated in San Diego County, including one that will give parents the right to seal autopsy reports and photographs of their murdered children.
Gov. Chris Christie will be in Old Bridge this afternoon to announce reforms he wants to make to the state's public education system.TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie is ready to announce reforms he wants to make to New Jersey's public education system.
He's expected to do it at a town hall meeting on education reform this afternoon in Old Bridge.
New Jersey students are among the best in the nation by such standards as test scores and graduation rates. But
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Many New York parents welcomed the idea of a longer school year, just as most New York kids blew the notion a giant and very predictable raspberry.
"There's no way I would want to stay in school longer," said Henry Minier, 16, of the South Bronx. "The quality of the school seems more important than how long
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