Education Reform

"Prep for Prep"--A Brilliant Education Idea Realized

Dan Brown | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Public Schools, Waldorf-Astoria, Urban Schools, Collegiate School, No Child Left Behind, Lilac Ball, Achievement Gap, Exeter, Choate, New York University, Brearley, Education Reform, Independent Schools, Phillips Academy, Prep for Prep, Business News
Dan Brown

Have you heard of Prep for Prep? It's a brilliant idea realized. Here's how it works: Every year for the past thirty years, approximately 150 low-inc...

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Two Million Minutes Takes a Lifetime to Endure

Gerald Bracey | Posted 06.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Change, India, Education, Schools, Education Reform, China, Entertainment News
Gerald Bracey

Toward the end, when the Indian or Chinese kids were on the screen, I wanted to yell at it: "Get a Life!" Not as a put-down, but as a wake up call.

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Exclusive, Anonymous Book Excerpt: An Insider Reveals the "Drunks, Dingbats, and Dilettantes Who Write & Score America's Standardized Tests"

Dan Brown | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Public Schools, High-Stakes Testing, Standardized Testing, Education, Publishing Companies, Education Reform, Education Policy, Media News
Dan Brown

I am highly critical of the current use of standardized tests in American public schools. While testing certainly deserves a place in the world, I bel...

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Watch and Join a Heated Three-Minute Education Debate

Dan Brown | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Partnership for Learning, Public Schools, Wendy Kopp, Performance Pay, No Child Left Behind, High-Stakes Testing, Robert Pondiscio, Teacher Quality, Core Knowledge, Teach for America, Ascd, Student Achievement, Amy Wilkins, American Federation of Teachers, Education Policy, Ed in 08 Blogger Summit, Student Assessment, Standardized Testing, Ed in 08, Teaching in the 408, Teachers, Education Reform, Public Education, Politics News
Dan Brown

At last week's Ed in '08 Blogger Summit, I asked a question about alternatives to high-stakes testing to the education policy panel and received an an...

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Schools at Risk: A Unique Perspective

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Education History, Education Reform, Technology, Public Schools, Fertilizer, U.S High School Graduation Rate, Fritz Haber, Pills, Living News
Gerald Bracey

Discussions about the condition of public schools usually center on curriculum, instruction and test scores. A new book by Gene V. Glass reads more like a thriller than an academic treatise.

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Newt Gingrich and Me: A Charged Moment at an Education Blogger Summit

Dan Brown | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Public Schools, Hotel Palomar, School Vouchers, Monopoly of Failure, Education Policy, Bloggers, School Funding, Ed in 08 Blogger Summit, School Reform, Education Sector, Teachers, Education Reform, New Gingrich, Ed in 08, Media News
Dan Brown

Gingrich's automatic dismissal of everyone currently within the struggling education system feels parallel to the disastrous de-Baathification process following the US invasion of Iraq.

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Is Reading First a Flop?

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Reading First, Department of Education, Education Reform, Living News
Gerald Bracey

On a measure of reading comprehension, Reading First students didn't do any better than students in similar schools without the program. How come?

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Out of the Mouths of Cry Babies

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.05.2008 | Home

Read More: Education, Education Reform, Truth, Nation at Risk, Home News
Gerald Bracey

Out of the Mouths of Cry Babies There was, as you would expect, a lot of "oh woe is us" in the last week of April as the 25th anniversary of "A Natio...

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The Myth Machine Marches On

Gerald Bracey | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Statistics, Education Reform, Myth Making, Bob Herbert, New York Times, Media News
Gerald Bracey

It is still amazing to me how people who are wise and insightful on most topics under the sun go all goofy when it comes to education. Goofy is you in today's column, "Clueless in America."

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An Outrageous Education

Donna Foote | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Public Education Reform, Racism, Race and Education, Teach for America, Education Reform, Race, Watts, Locke High School, Politics News
Donna Foote

Walking through the prison-like gates of Locke High School in Watts last week it was hard not to summon up Dante's admonition to those on the threshold of hell: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here."

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Say What?! Bloomberg Compares Himself to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dan Brown | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Education, New York Sun, Bronx, Mayor Bloomberg, Martin Luther King, Michael Bloomberg, City Council, Mike Bloomberg, Education Reform, Letitia James, Bloomberg, Nyc, NYC Education, Bloomberg Martin Luther King, Politics News
Dan Brown

No one slips and compares himself to Dr. King. This kind of comment betrays NYC Mayor Bloomberg's deeply out-of-touch relationship with the on-the-ground reality.

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The Biggest Education Issue That Is Not Education

Michele McNeil | Posted 02.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Health Care, 2008 Election, Offthebus, John McCain, John McCain Education, Hillary Clinton Education, Barack Obama Education, Barack Obama, Education, Education Policy, Health Care Reform, Hillary Clinton, Education 2008 Election, Education Reform, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Home News
Michele McNeil

Perhaps the single most important thing that the next president can do for schools has little to do with education, at least on its face. It's reforming health care.

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The Case for a Longer School Year (and What Conservatives Can Do About It)

Marc Lampkin | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: School Day, Longer School Year, Education, KIPP Charter Schools, Bill Gates Education, School Calender, Children, Changing the Length of the School Year, School Year, KIPP, Education Reform, School, Ed in 08, Politics News
Marc Lampkin

We are kidding ourselves if we think our kids can compete with students in India and China for the jobs of the future on six-hour school days.

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