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02/03/11--07:14: Let's Get Off the National Standards Train (chan 1336381)

Henry Burke and Donna Garner - The Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) project (a.k.a., CCS for short) is an effort to establish national standards for all K-12 public schools. The two organizations that are leading the CCS project are the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).


02/08/11--03:35: Learning, Growth and Socialization (chan 1336381)

Martin Haberman - In the world of academic knowledge production the word and the concept "learning" is the exclusive province of psychology. Educators assume that only psychology can inform their acts of teaching.


02/13/11--07:27: Secretly Happy Colleges Should Mean Overtly Angry Taxpayers (chan 1336381)

Yesterday, House Republicans introduced their preliminary list of spending cuts, cuts that were, they declared, "to go deep." Unfortunately, coming in at just $74 billion, they were about as deep as onion skin. After all, the total federal budget is well over $3 trillion, and the national debt now exceeds $14 trillion.


02/14/11--02:39: An Interview with Shaun Best: The Individual with a Head Injury or Brain Trauma (chan 1336381)

Michael F. Shaughnessy - My first brain trauma occurred at the age of twelve. I was riding an outdated three-wheeler without a helmet. An automobile, some have said truck, car, & 18-wheeler, hit my head on the right side resulting in a three-month coma.


02/16/11--04:41: 'Disparate Impact' Policy Draws Criticism (chan 1336381)

Critics are challenging the U.S. Department of Education's new focus on curbing school discipline policies that disproportionately affect some student groups.


02/17/11--05:06: The politics of education upended (chan 1336381)

JENNIFER EPSTEIN - In Wisconsin, about 1,000 teachers called in sick Wednesday to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to strip their union bargaining rights. In Washington, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie recounted his battle with his state’s teachers unions Wednesday, calling their leaders “greedy” and “selfish.”


02/18/11--05:16: Three Thoughts on Education This Week: Race to Stalemate (chan 1336381)

RiShawn Biddle - Race to the Standstill: For the past couple of months, there has been plenty of talk about the possibility of some sort of detente between President Barack Obama and House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline on the former's school reform agenda.


02/22/11--04:27: Unions at It Again: D.C. Being Made to Hire Back Fired Teachers (chan 1336381)

“Will the unions help keep poor teachers from returning to the classroom?” asked Saturday’s Washington Post, reminding us that union intransigience stretches from Madison,WI to Washington, D.C. An independent arbitrator recently ruled that D.C. Public Schools will be required to hire back 75 teachers fired during Michelle Rhee’s tenure. On top of this, D.C. will


02/25/11--03:08: Winning the Fight Against Special Interests’ Control over Education (chan 1336381)

The Wisconsin assembly agreed at 6:00 a.m. this morning to end debate on Governor Scott Walker’s (R) budget repair bill and to finally move to a decision on the proposed collective bargaining reforms. The situation in the Senate, however, remains unresolved and for over a week now Walker has been putting the fire under the


02/28/11--17:37: Debating Tenure Reform (chan 1336381)

J. C. Bowman, PhD - Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam will begin his legislative push in education with an attempt to address the tenure issue this week in the General Assembly. Professional Educators of Tennessee members have historically been split on the issue of tenure.