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The Barrister Maggie’s Farm 1/17/2013 …I think it’s time that the entire structure of public K-12 education ought to be reinvented. We started out with home-schooling, with tutors for the wealthy, then neighborhood one-room schoolhouses supported and controlled by the parents of the kids, then we went to the tax-supported, age-cohorted Prussian (yes, our public […] January 17th, 2013 | Tags: "Save Our Summers", age-cohort system, education reform, home schooling, technical skills | Category: Department of Education, Education, Unions | Comments are closed
An Open Letter to President Obama from Bill Ayers Good.is 11/6/2012 (at 9:10 PM)
Dear President Obama: Congratulations! I’m sure this is a moment you want to savor, a time to take a deep breath, get some rest, hydrate, regain your balance, and take a long walk in the sunshine. It might be as […] November 8th, 2012 | Tags: 'Race to the Top', achievement, Bill Ayers, Bill Gates, competition, education reform, Eli Broad, Michael Bloomberg, Newt Gingrich, Rep. Paul Ryan, Sam Walton, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Education, Education, Illinois, Politicians, Socialism, Taxes, Unions | Comments are closed
Robby Soave The Daily Caller 8/14/2012 Foes of school choice and other conservative education reforms have lined up to recall Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. But unlike the intense campaign in Wisconsin, no one expects this effort to even qualify for the ballot. “They really have no chance of actually getting enough signatures,” said Kevin Mooney, […] August 19th, 2012 | Tags: Angie Bonvillain, Brenda Romero, education reform, Gov. Bobby Jindal, litigation, Louisiana Association of Educators, school choice, vouchers | Category: Education, Louisiana, Politics, Unions | Comments are closed
The Huffington Post 10/20/2011 In one of the most hotly-anticipated biographies of the year, “Steve Jobs,” author Walter Isaacson reveals that the Apple CEO offered to design political ads for President Obama’s 2012 campaign despite being highly critical of the administration’s policies… Jobs, who was known for his prickly, stubborn personality, almost missed meeting President […] October 20th, 2011 | Tags: Apple, David Axelrod, education reform, John Doerr, John Sculley, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson | Category: Barack Obama, Books/media, Computers, Education, Politics, technology, Unions | Comments are closed
Beverly K. Eakman The New American 04 August 2011 American education has seen one “reform” movement after another. The most recent incarnation, “Race to the Top,” was initiated in 2009 by the Obama Administration. It is structured around a serious-sounding program called the “Common Core of State Standards Initiative Project,” or CCS for short, which […] August 4th, 2011 | Tags: 'social justice', "Common Core of State Standards Initiative Project", Council of Chief State School Officers, education reform, International Baccalaureate, National Governors Association | Category: "Stimulus" program, Barack Obama, Department of Education, Education, Founding Fathers, History, Progressives, Taxes, United Nations, US Constitution | Comments are closed
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