Pamela Geller – You must homeschool. You must support homeschooling networks. If you are an expert in a field, you must volunteer to teach or offer your time to home schooling networks. You must build an alternate education system, the way we are building our alternate news dissemination system, because the left has completely destroyed our institutions.
Michael Petrilli – I love Joel Klein. He made New York City a magnet for reform-minded entrepreneurs, sent forth more than a few excellent leaders to other big city school systems, and is never afraid to speak his truth. But his Wall Street Journal op-ed today is really lame.
Bill Johnson – By any measurement, Detroit Public Schools emergency financial manager Robert Bobb gets a failing grade for his effort to rein in the district's finances. Every step he has taken to control a spiraling deficit has worsened the financial and educational prospects of DPS.
In our education system we have seen the government completely secularize the teaching. Since 1962, Engel vs Vitale, we have seen students test score decline at an unbelievable rate. Scores have dropped from the 970’s in 1962 to the 880’s in just a few years. In International testing for math and science American high school students finish last, or in the bottom half.
Asking families and children to put up with mediocre schools is almost criminal. It is just that simple.
Kalman R. Hettleman – School reform nationally is on a roll. Sparked by nontraditional leaders, many urban school systems are dramatically raising expectations, test scores and graduation rates. President Obama and secretary of education Duncan are, I think, on the right track. Yet the education establishment is resisting.
Michael F. Shaughnessy – Copia has launched the first truly social eReading platform (not a single device) that will allow a community of people to consume content and engage one another as they read.
Donna Garner – It is time to resurrect the article that I wrote back on 4.19.10 entitled “Marc Tucker’s Bologna.” Why? Take a look at Marc Tucker’s National Education and the Economy (NCEE) State Consortium on Board Examinations Systems (SCOBES).
The education crisis for African-American males is a serious concern, but, as one education activist, we shouldn't make it worse than it actually is. One piece of data that recently became big news was widely misunderstood.
In Amanda Castaño’s classroom in a Long Branch public preschool, the four-year-olds get ready for reading circle with a song: “A leer, a leer, todos calladitos!” The native English speakers in the group join in as enthusiastically as the Spanish speakers, and when Castaño begins reading the story – in Spanish – the entire class is rapt.
STANLEY FISH – A follow-up to the column on college costs, from the two authors whose book was discussed last week.
Michael F. Shaughnessy – I’ve stumbled across some fabulous books. On my last visit, I discovered that this area now houses toys, merchandise and books about Disney princesses and other popular characters.
Michael F. Shaughnessy – If you are talking about influencing students in our classes the only feeble weapon in our bare arsenal is to share the concrete basis for being enthusiastic about reading such books.
Dave Welch – In a move of stunning ignorance, the Baptist General Association of Virginia recently adopted a resolution taking a back-handed slap at the Texas State Board of Education's vote this year to restore accurate teaching of separation of church and state to social studies curriculum. For sake of reference, read the offensive language from Texas for yourself:
Texas Governor Rick Perry was at The Heritage Foundation on Monday to speak on his new book FED UP! Its message is bringing limited, constitutional governance back to Washington and the role that state governments should play in that restoration. In his speech, the Governor stressed that the election was a clear message to lawmakers in
Ashley Thorne – Colleges and universities are now assessing faculty members' work in and commitment to sustainability.
Ashley Thorne – Arizona banned La Raza studies courses from its schools earlier this year, but eleven ethnic studies teachers are fighting to bring the radical programs back.
Charles Blow, the “Visual Op-Ed Columnist” for the New York Times, devotes his Saturday column this week to the “private school civility gap” – a phenomenon he deems a “not-so-little, not-so-secret, dirty little secret among the upper crust.”
11.2.10 – Michael F. Shaughnessy – The I CAN Learn® IIS is a research-proven, interactive, self-paced software solution that allows students to learn math at their own pace, engage with the program, and ultimately learn in a more effective manner.
10.27.10 – Michael F. Shaughnessy – Some states require that tests are translated into other languages while other states, including Florida, provide tests only in English (as it is the language of instruction and therefore should be how students demonstrate they have learned our standards).
10.23.10 – Kenneth Bernstein – Does that title surprise you? It shouldn't. When a department and its leadership are advocating for courses of actions either lacking research supporting effectiveness or — even worse –
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