The substantial differences in funding between schools prevents too many children in poor areas from realizing their potential, leading to ever more economic inequality in our society.
Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home
Over the course of this week, OffTheBus is running a primer on some of the most important foreign policy issues the next president will face. The primer can act as a guide to how candidates Barack Obama and John McCain stand on each issue. Check out the links for more information on these issues. Today, the primer looks at where Obama and McCain stand on Iraq, Afghanistan and trade policy.
Dan Brown | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics
When parents organize, it's hard to ignore. Chicago-based Parents United for Responsible Education and New York City-based Class Size Matters have jum...
Gary Stager | Posted 09.02.2008 | Politics
Although much of what Sarah Palin says in her education plan for Alaska, reads like an undergraduate homework assignment, she does express support for something called ABC Schools.
Dan Brown | Posted 09.01.2008 | Politics
I'm worried that I'm obsessing too much about Sarah Palin. She terrifies me! She fascinates me! She could be running our country! Here are ten reasons...
Dan Brown | Posted 08.25.2008 | Media
In the past year, the national discussion on education has been elevated and informed by an anonymous blogger known as Eduwonkette. Her daily updated ...
Dan Brown | Posted 08.19.2008 | Media
Renowned professor and author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has a new project that could be a true gift for raising engagement in African American students. ...
Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
With McCain's ideas on education, we finally have something new that can move us beyond the tired debates around No Child Left Behind. McCain supports virtual learning -- to the tune of $1 billion a year.
Gerald Bracey | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
Bob Wise was speaking on C-SPAN and equated the National Assessment of Educational Progress achievement level of proficient to grade level. This is absurd on its face.
Alexander Russo | Posted 08.17.2008 | Chicago
Disrupting the start of the school year is a small price to pay for something that could transform education in Illinois, which has the second-most inequitable funding system in the nation.
Dan Brown | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
Since his election in 2001, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made narrowing the white-minority achievement gap in New York City his signature issue. After ...
Dan Brown | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living
What happens when a teacher decides to disregard the canned standards and the stacks of test prep materials? Do the students wallow in ignorance, cheated out of a proper education by an "activist" teacher?
Dan Brown | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
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...
Gerald Bracey | Posted 06.22.2008 | Entertainment
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.
Dan Brown | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media
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...
Dan Brown | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
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...
Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living
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.
Dan Brown | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
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.
Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living
On a measure of reading comprehension, Reading First students didn't do any better than students in similar schools without the program. How come?
Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.05.2008 | Home
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...
Gerald Bracey | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media
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."
Donna Foote | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
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."
Dan Brown | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
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.
Michele McNeil | Posted 02.14.2008 | Home
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.
Marc Lampkin | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
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.
David Brooks spoke frankly about the presidential and...
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Joe Biden lashed out at Sarah Palin on Wednesday, calling her recent rhetoric...
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Fresh from the celebration of their 16th wedding anniversary on Friday, the Obamas shared...
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The newest issue of Men's Health has what is sure to be an illuminating...
Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics