Last week, the Georgia legislature passed a bill in the Senate (SB 167) that will essentially opt the state out of the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and English language arts and other projects, ideas, technologies that have any glimmer of association...
Figure 1. High School mathematics teacher. Creative Commons Attribution.[/caption] The Georgia legislature has already passed a bill in the Senate (SB 167) that will essentially opt the state out of the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and English language...
In an article published at the PeachPundit, the author, Charlie Harper suggests the Georgia Senate Bill 167 is an anti-science bill. In this post, I want to add to Mr. Harper's conclusion that the action of the Georgia Senate is major step backwards for education...
To improve the state of Georgia's response to severe weather, Governor Nathan Deal appointed a 28 member task force. A few years ago, when Atlanta educators were accused of changing answers on student tests sheets, the Governor (Sonny Perdue) appointed a panel of...
To improve the state of Georgia's response to severe weather, Governor Nathan Deal appointed a 28 member task force. A few years ago, when Atlanta educators were accused of changing answers on student tests sheets, the Governor (Sonny Perdue) appointed a panel of...
The power of universities to influence public policy and debate should be part of the mission of institutions of higher education. Yet, as Milton Greenberg points out in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "higher education tends to take a utopian "let us reason...
