“Ministers have exaggerated claims that Christian, Jewish and Muslim schools cherry-pick the best pupils to justify a series of ‘plots and threats’ against the religious sector, it is claimed. Key changes to school admissions rules - including a ban on interviewing families - have been introduced despite a lack of real evidence that faith schools […]
“Six years ago, the Philadelphia School District embarked on what was considered the country’s boldest education privatization experiment, putting 38 schools under private management to see if the free market could educate children more efficiently than the government. If it worked, the plan seemed likely to become a model for other struggling urban school […]
“Technology for delivering audio, video, and other school presentations must be affordable and simple to use if it is to transform teaching and learning: That was one of the predominant themes at this year’s InfoComm conference, held June 18-20 in Las Vegas. Nearly 35,000 educational technologists and other IT professionals attended the world’s largest audio-visual […]
“The neighborhood around Georgia State University was for years a maze of boarded up storefronts, aging buildings and parking lots that emptied at the close of each day. But the downtown Atlanta campus is shedding its sleepy commuter school image thanks to plush new dorms, gleaming classroom buildings, Greek life and, yes, even football. Georgia […]
“The case illustrates a nagging problem in school districts in New York and elsewhere around the country: firing bad teachers. It is also part of the ongoing debate over education reform and the role tenure plays in the process. Advocates for reform cite a list of egregious examples they say demonstrate why teacher tenure rules […]
“WHY is it that significant reform is opposed with the claim that research is needed, yet proposals to conduct such research are also opposed? WHY does the present system not only lack a research base but much of it functions in direct contradiction to research findings? WHY, for example, do we educate students by building […]
“In the first of his three op eds on this topic, Dr. North takes the view that the academic cartel will soon break down. Since it was written in 2000, eight long years ago, and this particular scheme to bilk the public is still very much alive and kicking, we must take his prediction as […]
“On April 1 America’s Promise Alliance, a coalition of the nation’s education elite, released a report on the school dropout problem, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Conclusion: The dropout situation is considerably worse in big-city schools than in suburban ones. Surely this was no April Fools’ Day joke, because the disparities between […]
“The stunning achievement levels racked up by students in New York City charter schools make it clear that the Legislature is duty-bound to give many more children the same opportunities for a high-quality education. All those lawmakers who have blocked the growth of charter schools in the city must, in all decency, reconsider their opposition […]
“The Western Governors’ Association convened for its annual conference Sunday in Jackson Hole in northwest Wyoming. Governors from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming voted to form the Western Wildlife Habitat Council.” (06/29/08)
