Private corporations are setting their sites on the education industry, as spending on education comes under review as budget concerns continue to plague states
Category: Education
Education doesn’t always lead to strong economy: Ask Greece
One of the few conservative ideas that has sufficient appeal for progressives to embrace is that you can’t solve problems just by throwing money
U.S. at bottom of heap in social justice rankings
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organization of 34 countries founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. All
Standardized education: moving America to the right
Listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, one would think that American schools are bastions of the hard left, education factories that churn out
What would reasonable school reform look like?
In my last two articles for Occasional Planet, I lambasted two current trends in our country’s educational system: over-reliance on standardized tests and the
Education: When more is less
The “more is always better” approach to instructional time is a popular and destructive fetish among educational policy makers (and one that goes hand-in-hand
Evaluating teachers based on students’ test scores is harmful. Here’s why.
I taught sixth grade in a local public middle school for six years. It was a struggling, blue-collar district. My students’ parents did not
Mexico City subway ride is a bridge to literacy
If you think riding a subway can be a Kafka-esque experience, try taking Mexico City’s yellow line. At each of 13 stations along the line,
My kids’ school doesn’t ban books. I checked. And yours?
Students in Missouri’s Republic school district won’t find Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five or Sarah Ockler’s Twenty Boy Summer in their school libraries. Classics like
I wish my public library looked like this
I used to deliver Meals on Wheels to a delightful, elderly woman who loved to read so much, and who was so beloved by