ACLU types in public schools must have run out of eathly targets. Now they have their sights on Santa.
College Prep
Bilingual Bedlam
Massachusetts and California have scrapped their bilingual education programs while in the state that President Bush governed not so long ago school officials cling tenaciously to their two-languages-for-the-price-of-one policy.
NCLB Privatized?
Could the progress in No Child Left Behind come from private tutors? Why not cut out the middleman?
Dropout Blues
Statistics show that one student drops out of high school every 9 seconds, according to the Pew Partnership for Civic Change.
Children Left Behind by NCLB
Although the controversy surrounding the Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program is usually portrayed as a classic clash of conservative and liberal political philosophies, dissatisfaction with NCLB is spreading across philosophical lines.
Bootomless Pit of Education Spending
Education funding already exceeds half a trillion dollars yet a broad array of groups wants more.
Get A Public School Clue
It’s a good thing that public school bureaucrats are not in charge of America’s Early Warning System. They are always the last to know.
Coleman & Me
The chairman of Accuracy in Media has a close up encounter of the surreal kind with Washington Post columnist turned high school teacher Coleman McCarthy.
Charter School Corruption
Not all education reforms work out the way that reformers intended them to.
Math Classic Returns
Time after time, our feel-good, faddish government education system blithely abandons proven teaching practices for the “pedagogy du jour.” When fads fail – and they invariably do – educators “discover” what others have known all along: namely, that learning requires hard work, lots of it.