Education is a powerful tool in the effort to improve society for everyone. I have always believed that. Read more…
Education improvement and reform is one of the most difficult political issues in our country. Read more…
Together, zero tolerance and high-stakes testing have turned schools into hostile and alienating environments for many of our youth, effectively treating them as dropouts-in-waiting. The devastating end result of these intertwined punitive policies is a “school-to-prison pipeline,” in which huge numbers of students throughout the country are treated as if they are disposable, and are being routinely pushed out of school and toward the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Read more…
Let’s be honest, the rabbits in the case of education performance are schools in geographic regions of high per capita wealth and the laggards are schools where per capita wealth, well… does not exactly rise to the descriptor, “wealth.” Read more…
