“Dartmouth College has been repeatedly roiled in recent weeks over the way some students are treating the very people the school was founded to help: American Indians. More than 500 students, faculty and administrators rallied in support of the American Indian community on Wednesday, a day after The Dartmouth Review published on its front page […]
“The Hurricane Education Leadership Program (HELP) Team, a consortium of more than 30 ed-tech providers, associations, and foundations, was created in late 2005 after hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged Gulf Coast schools. Besides mobilizing assistance to help these schools rebuild for the 21st century, HELP Team members also have been forming a plan to help […]
“More Americans must finish college if our country is to prosper in the global society, and it’s up to state legislators to make that happen. Those are recommendations from the final report of the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Blue Ribbon Commission on Higher Education, released today. There is a higher education crisis in this […]
“The young people singing and acting in full costume could have been professional child actors or a drama class at any school around. But the students rehearsing ‘A Christmas Carol — The Musical’ in Atascadero on Wednesday were in fact a unique theater group made up entirely of home-schooled students. The musical theater work, based […]
“Johns Hopkins University has suspended a student for an entire year for posting Halloween party invitations that some students found offensive on Facebook.com. After the university found 18-year-old junior Justin Park guilty of failing to respect the rights of others, harassment, and intimidation, among other charges, Park sought help from the Foundation for Individual Rights […]
“For many years, my mother taught in a sunny, spacious classroom in our neighborhood school in St. Louis. She was such a wonderful teacher that every year parents lobbied the principal to secure spots for their kids in my mom’s class. I used to tell her that she should be proud that she was in […]
“Opportunities for school choice in the United States have expanded since the 1990s. This report uses data from the National Household Surveys Program (NHES) to present trends that focus on the use of and users of public schools (assigned and chosen), private schools (church- and non church-related), and homeschoolers between 1993 and 2003. The percentage […]
“The struggle to desegregate America’s schools while ensuring equal educational opportunities for students of all races is one of the greatest social challenges the nation has faced over the last half century. While significant progress has been made since the Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, thousands of schools around […]
“With recent election results splitting control of the national government, legislators must now confront the challenge of crafting bipartisan initiatives. There is a prime opportunity for enlisting such broad support, which has not yet been fully developed: educational choice. Most of the action in this field occurs at the state rather than the federal level, […]
“More and more federal and state money is being funneled to our public schools to help disadvantaged and special education students. How is it possible that there are so many more disadvantaged and special education students in today’s classrooms? Well, the first question is the easiest to answer. Because there are so many children from […]
