Grading Education, Getting Accountability Right
(by Kenneth J. Bernstein aka teacherken, originally posted at the Daily Kos) If you send two groups of students to equally high-quality schools, the group with greater socioeconomic disadvantage will...
View ArticleObama’s Blueprint for Education – Richard Rothstein criticizes
cross posted from Daily Kos I have already weighed in on the Blueprint, in Obama’s “Blueprint” for education – why this teacher cannot support it. Today I want to call to your attention a very...
View ArticleAn incredibly important speech on education by Diane Ravitch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHdP4w8So-Y That is a brief clip of Diane Ravitch addressing the Representative Assembly of the National Education Association on July 6, where she was receiving an award as the...
View ArticleNCLB: Change is Past Due
“What we can do — what America does better than anyone else — is spark the creativity and imagination of our people. “ State of the Union 2011 President Barack Obama Where’s the nation’s educational...
View ArticleEducation: two important proposals
Education is not listed among the enumerated powers of Article I Section 8 of the Constitution. Yet the national governments of the United States have maintained an interest in education going back to...
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