Education

Exclusive, Anonymous Book Excerpt: An Insider Reveals the "Drunks, Dingbats, and Dilettantes Who Write & Score America's Standardized Tests"

Dan Brown | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Public Schools, High-Stakes Testing, Standardized Testing, Education, Publishing Companies, Education Reform, Education Policy, Media News
Dan Brown

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...

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The Help Americans Deserve

Rep. Joe Baca | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Latinos, Education, Congress, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Disparity, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Foreclosure, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Politics News
Rep. Joe Baca

As grim statics come out that show our nation's unemployment rates have surged to 5.5 percent, Republicans have again tried to block assistance to the families that urgently need it the most.

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Obama's Campus Troops "Ravished Our Virgins"

John K. Wilson | Posted 06.11.2008 | Home

Read More: College Students, Barack Obama 2008, Education, College, Academic Freedom, Obama, Election 2008, Students, Barack Obama, Offthebus, Home News
John K. Wilson

The Obama candidacy may be most transformative in how it has affected young people. It's about more than mere voting: It's about developing ways for students to be part of a bigger movement for social change.

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Five Things Students Really Should Know Before They Get To College

Rob Stafford | Posted 06.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Barton Fink, Ray Suarez, Education, Mtv, Mike Rose, California, Chargers, Dropout, Teaching, Living News
Rob Stafford

Many young adults show up in my classroom without these skills--because they've been clever enough to get by without them, because they had another talent worth nurturing, because they were part of the tragic 30%+ dropout rate here in California.

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The Glass Ceiling: 18 Million Cracks and Counting

Sara Whitman | Posted 06.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Postive Gender Roles, Politics, Education Rights, Education, Gender Bias, Womens Rights, Senator Clinton's Speech, Sexism, Gender Identity, Womens Issues, Hillary Clinton, Living News
Sara Whitman

In Senator Clinton's speech on Saturday, she mentioned not having broken the "glass ceiling." But she had made "18 million cracks in it."

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A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education

Pedro Noguera | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Early Education, Leaders, Education, Policy, School Improvement, Health, Nclb, Home News
Pedro Noguera

A new task force of national policy experts with diverse religious and political affiliations, in public policy fields including education, social wel...

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Education Reform: Ideas for the Way Forward

Pedro Noguera | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Time, Reform, Education, Susan Neuman, Bush, Politics News
Pedro Noguera

Here is an interesting story from TIME.com that I highly recommend. I'll have more to say about "A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education" tomorrow. h...

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Teenage Wasteland? Only If We Don't React

Marissa Miley | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Education, Abstinence Only Education, Sexual Education, Sex, Living News
Marissa Miley

Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its biannual Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance data and revealed that across the nation, teens' condom use has flat-lined since 2003.

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My Landmark Experience

Diana Odasso | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Education, Seminar, Self-Help, Landmark Education, Tom Cruise, Living News
Diana Odasso

My Landmark experience begins the day a trusted friend recounts his weekend Landmark getaway. Quietly, I think to myself, "Poor kid. He has up and joined a cult."

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Thousands of Parents Stand Today for Public School Choice

Mike Piscal | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Change, Public Schools, Parents, Los Angeles, Protest, Education, Charters, Politics News
Mike Piscal

Today several thousand parents will assemble to march on the Los Angeles Unified School District to demand choice, equity and accountability within California's public school system.

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Congress: Don't Close the Book on RIF

M. McNamara Pastor and N. Richardson Carlson | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rif, Education, Nea, National Endowment for the Arts, Politics News
M. McNamara Pastor and N. Richardson Carlson

Unless Congress reinstates $26 million in funding for Reading is Fundamental, it will be unable to provide the financial and organizational support needed to operate its literacy programs.

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Obama's Education Speech Fired Me Up

Dan Brown | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, No Child Left Behind, Mentors, Education, Student Achievement, Teacher Residency Programs, Nclb, Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, Standardized Testing, High-Stakes Testing, Barack Obama, Denver Post, Politics News
Dan Brown

Last week in Colorado, Barack Obama gave a truly incisive speech on improving education in America.

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We're Angry, Uneducated and Unhealthy-- Now What?

Dave Winer | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Jeff Jarvis, Education, Clinton Democrats, Health Care, Carl Levin, Politics News
Dave Winer

Which kind of president would you rather have -- one who accepts the world as it is and then maps out a way to win, or one that grouses at how irrational it is?

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When the Jumbotron says, "Read," You Read!

Gary Stager | Posted 05.31.2008 | Living

Read More: Education, Parenting, Morning Shows, Reading, Books, Living News
Gary Stager

Driving past the local "cash-strapped" high school's humongous color jumbotron the other day (the one in violation of zoning laws and with a larger ca...

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Spelling Porn

Gary Stager | Posted 05.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Television, Education, Abc, Spelling Bee, Media, Sport, Media News
Gary Stager

Spelling bees are a vulgar spectacle masquerading as education. The ability to properly spell guerdon is a cheap parlor trick demonstrating the most mechanistic and trivial expression of intelligence.

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Who Says the Boy Crisis Is Over?

Peg Tyre | Posted 05.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Education, Learning Disorders, Achievement Gap, Boys and Girls Learn Differently, Parenting, Living News
Peg Tyre

A new report alleging the boy crisis is over fails to mention is that when you compare the achievement of boys and girls from similar backgrounds, girls outperform boys by a wide margin.

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Put Some Clothes On!

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 05.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Girls, Dance, Education, Stripping, Feminism, Sex, Sexuality, Parenting, Living News
Danielle Cavallucci

It's time we put our girls back in decent clothing, quit teaching them beauty is everything, and trained them to take responsibility for their bodies.

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What You Don't Know Might Kill You -- And Everyone Else

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reliable Replacement Warhead, Threat, Education, US House of Representatives, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Council for a Livable World, Terrorist, Nonproliferation Treaty, Congress, William Perry, Peace, Steve Pearce, Rrw, Politics News
Steven Crandell

Nuclear weapons are seen as the most serious and immediate threat to human life on the planet, but few of us know much about that threat.

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For a "Change-Turnout-New Voter" Election, Bill Richardson Should Be VP Choice

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, 2nd Amendment, Latinos, New Mexico, Jobs, Education, Nobel Peace Prize, Healthcare, Energy, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Electoral Map, Debate, North Korea, Politics News
Paul Abrams

History tells us that few people vote for a ticket because of the vice-presidential candidate. However, Bill Richardson could change the electoral map -- now, and for two generations.

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Fact-Free Hypocrisy from CNN's Glenn Beck

Aaron Greenspan | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Education, Harvard, Media, Investment, Glenn Beck, Cnn, Media News
Aaron Greenspan

One has to wonder what exactly is wrong with Glenn Beck. I don't particularly care that he identifies himself as a conservative. The problem, I think, is that he doesn't actually know anything.

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Sex And The Forgotten Years

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 05.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Education, Aging, Health, Sex, Sexuality, Living News
Danielle Cavallucci

Signs of popular culture embracing the phenomenon of sex among Septuagenarians and beyond are cropping up in television shows, editorial coverage and magazine pop culture alike.

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The New GI Bill: It's a Win-Win Proposition

James Wright | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: GI Bill, US Military, Education, US Soldiers, Military, Universities, Politics News
James Wright

American colleges and universities must urge Congress and the president to support legislation that will give veterans the educational opportunities that they have more than earned.

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First Victory on GI Bill Today

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: GI Bill, Education, Iava, Iraq, Afghanistan, Congress, Jim Webb, Veterans, Fdr, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

The landmark new GI Bill is a tremendous and bipartisan commitment to our troops. We've seen enough bumper sticker and lapel pin patriotism; today, we saw the real thing.

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Obama's Key To The Blue Collar Vote

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Education, Hillary Clinton, North Carolina Primary, Barack Obama, Veterans, Obama Blue Collar, Obama Working Class, Obama Education, Obama Bill Clinton, Obama Military, Senator Obama Education, Home News
Mayhill Fowler

Obama can better connect with working-class voters by talking to them about education. That's the issue. He should drop in on small groups of folk, like Bill Clinton does, and sharply focus his answers and his questions!

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Con Man's Nightmare: Unlocking Academia

Aaron Greenspan | Posted 05.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Identity, Education, Information Technology, Security, Social Networks, Platform, Industry, Business News
Aaron Greenspan

No one can force universities to open their records, but they should. It's a win-win situation for education and industry, it will make lying on one's resume a pointless endeavor.

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