Last week in this space I wondered why the President had singled out for high praise a school in Denver where the teachers had taken on their own union to get work rules relaxed. Was he, I asked, sending a not-very-subtle message to teacher unions, “Put kids’ interests first. Stop with the trade union behavior”?
I asked Peter Cunningham, the Department’s uber-capable Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach, how that particular school was selected. He responded in an email that he had had nothing to do with it.
So if it wasn’t the Department of Education, then who? The likely suspects are on the President’s White
February is Black History Month.
Since our public schools are more segregated now than they have been in a quarter century, it is clearly the proper time for the Reformy types, EdSec Arne Duncan included, to complain that it turns out that desegregation is too hard.
I believe that was the wording of Brown v Board of Education. “Separate but equal schools are unlawful unless it is too difficult and complicated to desegregate them.” Uh huh. That was it.
The Reformy Kevin Carey in the Chronicle of Higher Ed:
So it’s not that Arne Duncan and education reformers don’t care about
From e-School: Two civil-rights groups are seeking a federal review of public school education in Texas, accusing state administrators of violating federal civil-rights laws as a result of social studies curriculum changes approved last year by the Texas Board of Education. The request
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The Illinois Supreme Court may have declared Rahm Emanuel a Chicagoan, but I have my doubts.
Not after I received the email from his campaign.
It warned of the snow. He gave us a half a dozen tips on what to do.
Education “reform” is dominated by a privileged few who seek to change schooling from a public service to a lucrative business. Photo: Jim West.
The public conversation around education “reform” is dominated by a privileged few who seek to change schooling from a public service to a lucrative business.
Millionaires and billionaires, such as Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walton family, owners of Wal-Mart, have spent years pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into think tanks and political campaigns.
They have captured the media through projects like the movie “Waiting for Superman” and NBC’s “Education Nation.” Their intent is clear: to gain control of public opinion and public policy and open up access to what they refer to as the K-12 “market,” namely, our schools.
Sadly, the Obama administration, led by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, has the
En la nueva programación se incluyen la tos ferina y la meningitis
Los adolescentes necesitan un refuerzo para protegerse de la meningitis meningocócica, una infección potencialmente mortal del tejido que rodea el cerebro, mientras que los niños deberían tener sus vacunas contra la tos ferina al día, teniendo en cuenta las nuevas recomendaciones de los expertos en pediatría.
La Academia Estadounidense de Pediatría emite directrices actualizadas sobre vacunación cada año. Su nueva programación, publicada el 1 de febrero en la revista Pediatrics, es muy similar a las recomendaciones del año pasado.
Pero incluso sin cambios de consideración, los pediatras aseguran que la programación revisada es una buena oportunidad para recordarles a los padres que deben asegurarse de que todas las vacunas de sus hijos estén al
Cathie, Cathie, Cathie. Where do I begin?
