The U.S. Department of Education has released and sent to Congress the document entitled A Blueprint for Reform: The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. You can read the Education Week article that focuses on key points in the...
Tomorrow, President Obama will send his education blue print to Congress, which, according to the New York Times article, "strikes a careful balance, retaining some key features of the Bush-era law, including its requirement for annual reading and math tests, while...
This week's Newsweek magazine included three lead articles entitled Why we can't get rid of failing teachers?, Schoolyard Brawl, and Blackboard Jungle. The next day, Teacher Magazine featured an online discussion related to these articles entitled Is Firing Bad...
Perhaps the fundamental goal of science education should be finding ways to interest students in science. Stephen Hornstra Landgraaf, (The Netherlands) made this statement as part of his comment in my previous post. In this era of standards-based education we leave...
We know you have a lot on your plate---a deep recession, two wars in the Middle East, health care reform, extreme partisanship, the fast spreading swine flu. Yet the one area that that is essential to our well being as a nation--education--has yet to become center...
I want to follow up from yesterday's discussion of Georgia's plan to boost beginning science teachers pay. I am prompted to do so because of the compelling comment on yesterday's post by Quin Harrell. Here is how he began his comment: While I agree with pay...
