For as long as we’ve had schools in the United States, we have provided high quality education among the best in the world to many students while at the same time failing to meet the basic educational needs of many others. And we have been criticizing and complaining about those schools for just as long.
Education News Resources:
Education Reporters, Writers, Critics:
Valerie Strauss - The Answer Sheet of the Washington Post
Michael Petrilli of the Fordham Institute
Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute
Joanne Jacobs - education blogger - Linking & Thinking on Education
TED Talks
Rita Pierson -- "Every Child Needs a Champion"
Chimamanda Adichie -- "The Danger of a Single Story"
Mike Rowe -- "Learning from Dirty Jobs"
Sir Ken Robinson -- "Do Schools Kill Creativity?"
Linda Cliatt-Wayman -- "How to Fix a Broken School: Lead Fearlessly, Love Hard"
Books to Read
Why Johnny Can't Read - Rudolph Flesch
Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reform -- Diane Ravitch
Real Education -- Charles Murray
In Defense of a Liberal Education -- Fareed Zakaria
I Read It, But I Don't Get It -- Cris Tovani
Other Information
The Shrinking of the Liberal Arts
Baseball Experiment & Background Knowledge in Reading
Family & Environment and Education Achievement
The Importance of Social-Emotional Learning
Racial Bias in Grading and Learning
The Case Against Zero in Grading
The Importance of Culturally Responsive Education
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