Teach For America (TFA) is an innovative program that draws thousands of talented individuals into public service.In short, the program offers top-tier college graduates the opportunity to teach in high-needs schools for two years while earning a...
Today, Barack Obama outlined his vision for reforming education in America. Speaking a the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and flanked by his Secretaries of Education and Labor, the president offered five pillars of importance and discussed his plans for strengthening...
David Brooks's facile, distorted representation of the state of education reform in The New York Times made me wring my hands. In his first paragraph, he speciously outlines two distinct camps of education interests:On the one hand, there...
Reforming America's inadequate public school system--a crucial priority for our country's future-- should not be undertaken with a failed ideology. The centerpiece of John McCain's education plan is to apply the epically failed deregulated...
Barack Obama's education plan must be enacted. Throughout the presidential campaign, Senator Obama has spoken candidly and laid out workable plans to address many facets of our education crisis -- parental responsibility, early childhood education, affordability for college -- but...
Classrooms are ready-made for great stories. Comprised of twenty-some children and one adult, bound by a common mission, they are intersections of youth and experience, energy and discipline, empowerment and failure. They are fascinating spaces, and given schools...