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National Education Issues

Is school too complicated?

I recently wrote about my thoughts on school being a waste of time. From time spent waiting on instruction to begin, to time wasted due to...
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Valedictorian Speech Urges Education Reform

Straight from the mouth of babes: Erica Goldson earned the honor of Valedictorian for Coxsackie-Athens High School in New York State. Her...
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Why we need Arts in Schools (Carol Channing on The View)

My kids are very fortunate. As homeschoolers, I have chosen to make the arts the core of their educational experience. They have a good 10 hours a...
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5 Ideas for cutting costs in public schools

Schools are taking drastic measures to cut costs these days. Schools are going to 3 day school weeks. They are firing teachers en masse. Districts...
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Today it seems that education is going nowhere fast

If things get worse before they better, education is about to hit an all time high. That's because it hit an all time low today. Protests...
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Obama says raise academic standards... Schools make graduation harder to achieve

In all fairness, the state of Georgia introduced the new academic standards long before President Obama was in office. It is the new standards are...
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Every teacher at school fired... What will happen next

In a move meant to break the control of the union over the district, all of the teachers at one Central Falls, R.I. school were fired. 93 teachers...
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Eight states to cut high school in half

School administrators in key states are looking overseas for a new model in education. Beginning in 2011, schools in Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine,...
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If we treated math students like olympians

I recently wrote an article called Rethinking high school math, where I mentioned that maybe Algebra should not be the starting point for all high...
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Rethinking highschool math

In recent years, schools all over the country have pushed "Algebra-for-all", in a policy that was believed to make more students college...
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