Even reports published by prestigious institutions can be flawed and deserve a low grade. In my own view, this is the case for the Fordham Institute's new report entitled The State of State Science Standards that was published recently. Yet when you do a Google...
Who the #@!% would make such a statement? Why would such a statement be made about America's youth? If you go the Broad Foundation Education page you will find the answer to the first question. This is the first of four statements about American youth, followed by...
The No Child Left Behind Act is linked to the data that shows schools in California are teaching less science because teachers are pressured to prepare students for the required math and English high-stakes tests. Valerie Strauss writes that Virginia is moving to...
In his 2012 State of the Union address, President Obama included a section of his speech that focused on education, not only K-12, but he also challenged colleges and universities to be more creative about how they work with students, and as well as the hundreds of...
It has been in vogue for at least a decade, maybe longer, to question American teacher's abilities to educate its youth. According to some politicians, America has had a series of Sputnik moments, starting in 1957 with the launch of the world's first satellite, to...
In 1982, John Naisbitt published, Megatrends, a book about trends that were transforming our lives. In the book he identified five states as "bellweather" states---states that were setting trends for the rest of the nation. The "bellwether" states he identified in...
