Category Archives: Opinion

Public Education’s Biggest Failure Is To Prepare Students For Effective Citizenship

Here is today’s test: What does the phrase, “with liberty and justice for all,” mean to you? On a scale of 0 -100, to what degree does the US live up to the ideal of “liberty and justice for all”? … Continue reading

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How Can Public Education Be Transformed?

How can public education be transformed? The two ways we currently rely upon are not valid: State and federal government keep making more regulations, more requirements, most tests, more penalties and more rewards. Citizens kept agreeing to fund education at … Continue reading

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If Education Is Just About Producing Good Test Scores, Then $11,000 Per Year, Per Child, Is Too Much To Spend

An interesting article in Slate by Zephyr Teachout, predicts, “The web will dismember universities, just like newspapers,” and says, “Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of … Continue reading

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