Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Joy Resmovits: Ron Paul's 'New School Manifesto'; Federal Equity Commission -- Ed Today

Joy Resmovits: Ron Paul's 'New School Manifesto'; Federal Equity Commission -- Ed Today:


Ron Paul's 'New School Manifesto'; Federal Equity Commission -- Ed Today

Next In Your Education Library: Ron Paul?? According to the Washington Post, former presidential candidate Ron Paul is working on an education tome called "New School Manifesto." The book will be out in September. Paul, as you might recall, campaigned on shutting down the U.S. Education Department. So it'll come as no surprise that the book will majorly boost home schooling.

'Irredeemably Blighted?' A new federal report on school equity uses this term to describe what the school system and its unfairness has wrought to poor and minority students. As we report, the 27-member commission on "equity and excellence" found that the latest wave of education reform is not enough. Rather, making schools equitable would include a major pre-k push as well as a re-imagining of the way schools are funded. But it's unclear where these proposals go next.

Alternative School Investigation? The Pennsylvania Department of Education is investigating the Delaware Valley High School, an alternative school in Bucks County, Penn. The investigation is cropping up after the state