After years of federal policy malpractice, the nation is eager for a fresh agenda for public schools. In picking Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona to be his nominee for U.S. secretary of education, President-elect ...
A national forum on education comprised of 2020 presidential candidates reveals a party moving away from charter schools and failed reforms. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bennet wants you to know how much he cares—really cares—about ...
A new report finds “the federal government has wasted up to $1 billion on charter schools that never even opened, or opened and then closed because of mismanagement and other reasons.” Earlier this year when ...
In the age of standardized tests and common core state standards, today’s teachers must stick strictly to teaching the curriculum, which outside forces sometimes determine. Local school boards and administrators normally design school curriculums, but ...
“As a former CPS teacher, I know how hard our dedicated educators work to ensure the children of Chicago can live up their vast potential.” On Monday, August 26, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) announced ...
“In the last school year for which my group had data, 2016 to 2017, the U.S. public schools no longer had a majority of any racial group.” (By Erica Frankenberg, The Conversation) Democratic presidential candidate ...
Ohio has a new coalition of business leaders “committed to improving education for every Ohio student,” but is the commitment really to quality education or to creating an optimal employee for local business? Multiple prominent ...
The recent college admissions scandal shines a light on the dark underside of the U.S.’ education system and the many widespread educational advantages affluent Americans benefit from —all while the less-advantaged struggle for a decent ...
(By Michael Addonizio, Wayne State University) When I was asked to support a federal lawsuit that says Detroit’s deteriorating schools were having a negative impact on students’ ability to learn, the decision was a no-brainer. Detroit’s schools ...
The costs imposed by charter schools are not only financially burdensome to local public schools; they’re also potentially calamitous to schoolchildren and families. (By Jeff Bryant, Independent Media Institute) When striking Los Angeles teachers won their ...
After teacher strikes in Los Angeles and Denver, Oakland teachers are now the latest to take to the picket lines to demand a better educational atmosphere. Teachers in Oakland entered their second day of a ...
Dorin Shen is Senior Product Strategist for Canvas, the open online learning management system (LMS) that makes teaching and learning easier. Through open, usable, cloud-based technologies, Canvas enables easy integration of the content, tools, and ...
All Florida public schools are now required to exhibit the state motto phrase “In God We Trust” in a visible space, in accordance with a measure passed by Florida Governor Rick Scott. In March, Scott ...
In the words of 19th-century educator and reformer Horace Mann, education should be the “great equalizer” of opportunity in a society, but this is not America’s reality. Some school districts have fallen deeply into debt, ...
Greasy politicians use education funds to enrich corporations — and themselves. (OtherWords, by Jim Hightower) Betsy DeVos and her husband Dick are lucky: They inherited a big chunk of the multi-billion-dollar fortune that Dick’s dad ...
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