1.29.10 – More phony-white-liberal crocodile tears have been shed over the issue of academic freedom than perhaps over any other. More academics have waxed more eloquent over it than over perhaps any other topic receiving their tender attention.

Seattle, WA, January 29, 2010 – An early “snapshot” analysis of 23 state budgets using federal education stimulus dollars indicates that short-term benefits could result in less spending on schools over the long term in some states.

In an increasingly diverse society, educators and policy makers face the challenge of fostering educational environments that are inclusive and welcoming to all students and teachers. Today, schools and teachers must consider whether the educational context facilitates learning for all youth, including those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered (GLBT

States Affirm Commitment to Working Together to Ensure Comparability of Student Performance in Developing New Statewide Assessment Systems

AASA believes it’s time to get back to the basics of supporting the total child — from physical and mental health to the development of fundamental, lifelong learning skills. Only when children have support for all their needs will schools have a real chance of helping every student master required education concepts and skills.

1.20.10 – No Child Left Behind is plunging many English language learners into the educational mainstream — and sometimes getting them in over their heads. Teacher collaboration may help such students stay afloat.

1.20.10 – Charter schools tailored to the needs of newly arrived immigrants are getting a lot of attention. But are they working? And will they lead to a new kind of segregation?

1.20.10 – Sean Price – Every year around Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the news media start quoting his “I Have A Dream” speech. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a great speech – certainly one of the best ever given in the cause of civil rights.

1.20.10 – Jennifer Holladay – Denver Public Schools will be closed for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday on Monday. But this Friday, students at some area schools will “honor” him with a special lunch:

1.15.10 – Maura Varley Gutiérrez – A 5th-grade math club contributes skills and determination to a community struggle to keep their school open.

1.1.510 – vKelly McMahon – You may not believe how many tests kindergartners take—and what they are missing as a result.

1.14.10 – Despite the call for today's adolescents to achieve higher levels of literacy than previous generations, approximately 8.7 million fourth through twelfth grade students struggle with the reading and writing tasks that are required of them in school.

1.14.10 – The Civil Rights Project at UCLA – We approach the Martin Luther King holiday and the one-year anniversary of the Obama inauguration – a year in which the new administration made little explicit commitment to combating racial isolation in American education

1.13.10 – by Owen Edwards EDUTOPIA – William Shakespeare is the great shape-shifter of English literature, maybe of all literature. Because relatively little is known about him — unlike, say, Dante or Goethe or, for that matter, Danielle Steel — he has been imagined to have been the Earl of Oxford, or Francis Bacon, or even Queen Elizabeth I herself.

1.13.10 – Russell Scott Smith EDUTOPIA – Terry, a student at Toronto's York Mills Collegiate Institute, wrote that rap for his tenth-grade English class as part of a music video depicting William Shakespeare's famous play Macbeth. "We got 100 percent on it!" Terry recalls.