Steven Singer: Hey, Unions, Watch, Wait, and Listen Before You Endorse a Candidate
Steven Singer urges the two big teachers’ unions to watch and wait before they make an endorsement in the Presidential race, and be sure...
Category : US Education
Marc Tucker, Checker Finn, and the Future of American Education
This is an interesting discussion about the future of American education, written by Marc Tucker. Check out the October 12 edition of Flypaper, The...
Hillary Clinton Will Be the Nominee of the Democratic Party. I Will Support Her. I Hope You Will Too.
I wrote before that I would support the nominee of the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton won a decisive victory in California last night, and she...
Bertis Downs: This is the Speech That Will Elect Bernie or Hillary
Bertis Downs is a parent and public education activist who lives in Athens, Georgia. His daughters attended the public schools in Athens. Bertis is a...
Senate Committee Reaches Agreement on Néw ESEA
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Senator Patti Murray (D-Wa.) announced agreement on reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (currently called No Child Left...
Leon Botstein: Are We Still Educating Citizens?
This article is a brilliant essay by Bard College President Leon Botstein about the democratic and civic purposes of education. It begins thus: ...
Wendy Lecker: Our Real National Standards
Wendy Lecker, senior attorney for the Education Law Center, writes here that our most important national standards are found in our obligation to provide a...
Labor Day, 2014
I recently saw photographs of John F. Kennedy giving a Labor Day speech in New York City during his Presidential campaign in 1960. He spoke...
Kaiser Fung: Bill Gates Needs to Hire a Statistical Advisor
Thanks to Paul Thomas for the link to this impressive post by Kaiser Fung, a professional statistician. Fung saw an article By Gates claiming that...
Peter Greene: I Will Not Quit; They Will Not Win
Peter Greene, a high school teacher in Pennsylvania, describes the present moment–in which powerful people are tearing apart public education and attacking the profession of...