Once regarded as a national leader in higher education, California is quickly falling in the ranks as fewer young people graduate from high school and enroll in college, according to a report released Wednesday by the California Faculty Association.
President Obama gave his big economic recovery speech this morning. As I was sitting with some of my fellow teachers during the lunch hour, we noticed one thing - he kept stressing that education would be a top priority.
Chicago public school bureaucrats skirted competitive bidding rules to buy 30 cappuccino/espresso machines for $67,000, with most of the machines going unused because the schools they were ordered for had not asked for them, according to a report by the CPS Office of Inspector Ge …
A former middle school teacher who had sense taken a job with a defense contractor was arrested for child porn.
You would think in this economy that school districts wouldn't have to scrape the bottom of the hiring barrel to find competent and conscientious drivers.
A former Teacher of the Year in a north Texas school district was tracked down in New Mexico four years after he faked his own death.
While the money we need for schools and social services will still certainly be out there, it will take a relentless fight to get the wealthy and powerful to prioritize our health and our classrooms over bailouts for banks and billions for war.
A little girl's letter to Santa Claus, turned in at school, had this item on her wish list: make a male relative stop touching her and her sister. The letter led to the man's arrest.
We have to consider why public schools are a basic shambles, private schools are prospering, and home schooling is a growing market. The consistent underfunding coupled with over crowding chokes the effectiveness out of public education.
At a reception in St. Paul on Wednesday for Catholic Republicans, Rep.
While the rest of us worry about tuition, clothes and school supplies for our kids as the new academic year starts, Cindy McCain appears at the RNC for one night, in a $300,000 outfit.
How do our kids fair in standardized tests. The largest standardized test that can get high school grads into colleges and universities, the SAT, shows students scores the lowest in decades.
If the State Supreme Court decides something is unconstitutional... the legislature just tries to change the constitution! Florida may be at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to U.S. public education, but vouchers aren't the solution...
A few days ago, I wrote a blog entry taking umbrage at, among other things, Kevin Carey's failure to acknowledge the distinction between public schooling and public education.
LUMINARIES of the American Revolution are much revered and endlessly biographied. But in the South reverence only goes so far when it comes to Thomas Paine.
Washington Times June 22, 2008 How much funding for the education of students is District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton willing to lose to prove a political point? At least $18 million, apparently.
Ignoring threats of a lawsuit, the Louisiana House voted for legislation Wednesday that could change the way evolution is taught in public schools.
Earlier this spring I decided to try high school teaching. After six years teaching at the college level, with no permanent full-time job in sight (given the state's headlong dive for the bottom in higher education), the possibility tantalized.
I should have put the year I took up boxing on my resume.
A brief hunt on the Internet led me to discover that there are 41 federal departments/agencies...just under the letter "A". There are 15 federal agencies that fall under the management of the president. One of them is the sham known as the U.S.
A product of the public school system herself, Obama praised the schools she hailed from in Chicago's tough Southside. She called for action that would bring all public institutions up to par.
Are you fatigued with constant media coverage of race cards, gender cards, religion cards, and all the rest of the dog-eared deck that is starting to sound like a media echo-chamber? I sure do wish some candidate would play the Education card sometime soon.
First he said he didn't support them. Then he said he did. But only in a qualified way. Like how Bill Clinton doesn't inhale when he smokes pot.
This from the Boston Globe today By Tracy Jan Globe Staff / March 22, 2008
Angelica already beat me to the scoop with the California homeschooling story. One thing I thought especially interesting about it was the judge's own rationale, based on his understanding of the central purpose of public education.