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Innovation is the key.......... 23 Apr 2012 | 11:00 pm
In 1991, Lamar Alexander and David Kearns invited Diane Ravitch to become assistant secretary of education in the administration of George H.W. Bush. However, in a Wall Street Journal article written ...
a...better.....brighter education 20 Apr 2012 | 11:00 pm
Sadly, my comments about the inaccurate information posted in a blog about the Barack Obama Academy for Academic and Civic Development were not comprehended by the blogger who impugned the integrity o...
The Barack Obama Academy of Academic and Civic Development 19 Apr 2012 | 11:00 pm
I normally would not respond to hyperbolic commentary yet in this case I contend a recent duplicitous miscue posted by a local blogger. The post inaccurately stated that the Barack Obama Academy of Ac...
Deconstructing No Child Left Behind 29 Mar 2012 | 11:07 pm
"Rather than shouldering the risk of change, too many of our political and educational leaders rest behind the traditional system masking their lack of imagination with tough talk dodging their duty. ...
The School-to-Prison Pipeline Fact or Fiction? 24 Mar 2012 | 02:03 am
The Education Law Center (PA), Fair Test, the Forum for Education and Democracy, Juvenile Law Center, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. released a joint position paper examining t...
Plainfield Public Schools In Action 26 Feb 2012 | 03:00 am
I began my career in the Plainfield Public School system in 2001 and quickly assessed that there were myriad scholarly students who were driven to transcend their public education experience. I will p...
Public Education For Sale? 24 Feb 2012 | 04:58 am
We seem powerless and committed to an educational model no longer capable of providing a quality education to students confined to low performing urban schools. It is unacceptable that urban students...
Deconstructing The School-T0-Prison Pipeline 16 Feb 2012 | 12:18 pm
An inordinate number of students leave urban high schools without a pathway toward higher education or possessing the requisite skill-sets necessary to compete in a global economy. Without the proper ...
A Nation in Peril 20 Nov 2011 | 06:48 am
" A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." President John F. Kennedy Against the backdrop of the horrific test cheating scandal in Atlanta; prosecutors in New York decla...
Recycle, Reuse, and Reduce 26 Jul 2011 | 12:00 am
"Environmental historians have documented new mainstream environmentalism's wilderness and preservationist conceptions of the environment as a pristine green space devoid of people were derived from ...
