Shane Vander Hart: Our education system did not get to where it is at overnight and change will not happen overnight. Even though our prospects may look bleak there are four ways we can continue the fight in 2018.
The Ten Commandments of Public Education
Denis Ian: These commandments for public education promise a return to purposeful education unpolluted by biases and prejudices and misplaced emphases.
To Heck With Diamonds, Common Core is Forever
My organization, ROPE, has been closely following the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) cost issue, since NO ONE in charge of public education in Oklahoma – including the purse string holders at the state legislature – have been able to tell Oklahomans what the Common Core will cost Oklahoma taxpayers. I wrote an article last […]
Ignorance is Bliss and Expensive
We keep hearing the beating drum of more money for education, and apparently it works because people are not well informed. Check out the following two graphs from Education Next-PEPG Survey, published in Education Next‘s Winter issue. The first is related to school spending. The next graph is related to teacher pay: Question – how […]
Ghost in the Machine
And this, my friends, is how it’s done. This is how Progressives/Liberals have changed America right in front of our faces – right before our very eyes. Recently, EdWeek ran this article, “National Service Can ignite School Turnaround Efforts”. “Oh, this sounds great!” you think as you begin to read. After all, what in the […]