There is a difference between “toeing the line” and remaining neutral when discussing controversial issues and just downright ignoring them altogether. If you are a teacher and you didn’t discuss some component of yesterday’s health care debate in your class today then SHAME ON YOU! I would even take the passing: “Did everyone know that [...]

Recently Diane Ravitch, former United States Assistant Secretary for Education under the Bush administration, has come under fire for an “about face” of her standpoint on NCLB. The whole situation is a shame for a number of reasons and yet no one is willing to look them in the face. I applaud her for finally [...]

Here is an article by Thomas Friedman from the January 10, 2010 New York Times. Its title is It’s All About The Schools, and he discusses the role that the West has in improving school systems in Yemen. Below are some notable excerpts: “They spoke fondly of U.S. schools that were based on merit, taught [...]

An article in today’s New York Times discusses something that much of the world already knows: much of the time that kids are awake these days, they are online and engaged in some type of media-rich content. My favorite is a comment in the article by a parent: “By the time he was 4, he had [...]

An article in the Washington Post today (January 6th) discusses an announcement to be made by the Obama administration to provide $250 million dollars in aid to improve STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) instruction and “help the nation compete in key fields with economic rivals”. This is an outstanding effort by the Obama administration to empower teachers with [...]

A January 3rd article in the New York Times discussed the implementation and development of new Master’s degrees as a result of tough economic times. Once again, I ask: are we, in K-12 education, considering the implications that these types of new degrees will have on the lives of our students? I highly doubt it. [...]

The University of Michigan is making waves with the revamping of their teacher preparation program! Why the exclamation point at the end of that sentence? Because it is about time that schools of education begin to realize that they are behind medical schools, law schools, and business schools in the quality of preparation that graduating [...]

An article published on January 1st in the Seattle Times paints a dismal picture of the priority that education seems to be experiencing during the economic “situation” of our country. Take note of the different components that are being cut or downsized to save money especially, “suspending all-day Kindergarten for students in schools with the [...]

Today’s L.A. Times features an article that every educator should read to feel a great boost of motivation and encouragement. Teachers from L.A. Unified School District are working diligently to “take their school back” after it was deemed failing and is up for contract by charter organizations (and one non-profit that is controlled by the [...]

An article in the New York Times today discusses the implications on learning that exist when adjunct professors are hired to teach courses. In a time of economic turmoil, this only seems more and more prevalent (as the article states). In undergraduate schools of education, I tend to wonder if this is necessarily a bad [...]