Nearly 200,000 fathers and significant male role models are getting involved at hundreds of schools across America through an effective and exciting program called Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students). Watch D.O.G.S. is a program of the Kansas City-based, National Center for Fathering. ... Read more...
Photos courtesy Oblate Sisters of Providence Archives, Baltimore, Md. - The St. Frances Home for Girls in Normandy, Mo., near St. Louis, was founded by the Oblate Sisters of Providence, an African-American order providing black girls with elementary education and domestic training. Long before the... Read more...
For 20 years, the Chicago Public Schools have tried it all. High-stakes tests, decentralization, ending social promotion, shuttering failing schools and opening new ones. And through it all, reading scores in the city's weakest elementary schools largely haven't budged, an exhaustive ... Read more...
It wasn't quite the Smackdown in Edgartown, but two leading figures in the national education debate politely collided here Thursday over the causes of failing schools and the best ways to rescue them. Michelle A. Rhee, the former D.C. schools chancellor whose take-no-prisoners stance shook up the ... Read more...
A Harvard-educated businessman turned educator who struggled with his own academic challenges as a child is Broward's new schools chief. The Broward School Board on Wednesday selected Robert Runcie, a computer consultant and chief of staff to the Chicago Board of Education, as the district... Read more...
Pennsylvania is one step closer to finding out just how much teacher cheating occurred on its 2009 standardized tests as cities nationwide try to make sense of the phenomenon. On Monday, the state reported that it had received 83 percent of districts' internal probes into schools suspected of cheat... Read more...
NATIONAL DEBTS [col. writ. 7/30/11], (c) Mumia Abu-Jamal Amidst the political brinksmanshlp occasioned by the rising of the national debt ceiling, a question arises. What is the nation's debt? Of the 14.3 trillion cited in published accounts, over a quarter of that amount, or $4.4 tril... Read more...
Andrew Theodorakis/News - Frank Borzellieri, who tried to ban "anti-American" books and fire an openly-gay teacher as a Queens school board member, is the new principal of a Bronx Catholic school. A firebrand educator with ties to a white supremacist group is running a Bronx Catholic school w... Read more...
Kampala - THE Budaka district education officer, Wilson Lyadda, has said 80% of parents in the district do not know what happens to their children while at school. He said many parents dump their children in school without bothering to know their academic performance. "Parents only fight hard ... Read more...