Parents across the country have organized to take back education. Where to start?
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New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks just announced a mandatory new program to address the literacy crisis in his schools. What is this brand-new curriculum? None other than phonics!
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A high school English teacher at Rosemount High School in Minnesota, which was called a “top ranked school” by the Minnesota Department of Education, given the “Blue Ribbon School of Excellence Award by the U.S. Department of Education, and named a top school in the nation for 2014 by Newsweek Magazine, just wrote a shocking letter alerting parents and the public that her high school juniors can’t read. Her letter published by the Minnesota Star Tribune on December 4 was eloquent, so I quote it verbatim.
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Federal spending on public schools (which is only a small percentage of their school budgets) was given specific goals in the 2002 law called “No Child Left Behind,” the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Continue reading →Every few years a new fad sweeps across the public schools. We’ve had self-esteem, new math, whole language, New Age, outcome-based education, school-to-work, mental health screening, school-based clinics, global education, diversity, multiculturalism, and early childhood education.
Continue reading →Are taxpayer-subsidized infomercials and payoffs to friendly commentators the federal government’s answer to education problems?
Continue reading →Bill Cosby doesn’t deserve the negative fallout that followed his remarks about the dropout rate of some poor students.
Continue reading →All over the country, students, their parents and teachers are in an uproar about the tens of thousands who flunked the test designated as the requirement for high school graduation.
Continue reading →The Florida Parent-Educators Association has grown from a handful of parents 15 years ago to a three-day convention with 100 workshops, 131 booths selling curricula and software, high school graduation ceremonies, and a college scholarship to Harvard.
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When Hillary Rodham Clinton charged that Bill Clinton’s impeachment was caused by a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” she displayed the typical paranoia of liberals.
Continue reading →Whole Language means teaching children to guess at words from the pictures or the context, to skip over words the child doesn’t know, and to substitute words that seem to fit.
Continue reading →The NEA supports early childhood education programs in the public schools for “children from birth through age eight.” NEA members must be living on another planet if they think the American people are willing to put their babies in public schools starting at birth.
Continue reading →Americans are at last being told the tragic fact that the public schools are failing to teach children how to read.
Continue reading →It’s many years overdue, but the scandal of widespread illiteracy has finally become a topic of general discussion and debate, from local newspapers to network TV news. Americans are at last being told the tragic fact that the public schools are failing to teach children how to read.
Continue reading →The most controversial words in the education world today are Outcome-Based Education (sometimes called Performance-Based Education, and formerly called Mastery Learning).
Continue reading →Outcome-Based Education (OBE) is sweeping the country in the name of school “restructuring.” OBE calls for a complete change in the way children are taught, graded and graduated, kindergarten through 12th grade. Since the American people seem ready to accept drastic surgery on our failed public schools, state departments of education are seizing this opportunity to force acceptance of OBE as the cure.
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