A new contract for Los Angeles teachers provides limited wage increases, but teachers made headway in areas where they said they needed support, including smaller class sizes and an increase in the number of librarians and nurses. A shift in city focus away from expanding charter schools is a likely strike result too.
Education philanthropy has been fraught with challenges, much of it a result of the way philanthropists give.
While the notion of the Trump Administration standing firm on an abstinence-only agenda may seem absurd, the stance has become important as a part of a cultural platform and, apparently, a way to get back at political foes.
In a partial concession to critics, the nonprofit College Board agrees to create an advanced placement world history curriculum that starts in 1200, rather than 1450. This still excises well over 8,000 years of history from the world history curriculum that had been in place since 2002.
A recent look at public education in Oakland raises important questions about whether maximizing choice comes at the cost of equity.
The Koch Network goes beyond charter schools to advocate family-based customized learning. The concept, if fully implemented, threatens to harm the nation’s social fabric by displacing public schools and the common civic grounding they provide.
Can the public good be advanced privately? CZI says yes, just trust us.
Is state funding for universities a victim of globalization since fewer graduates “stay local?” A professor points the way to a renewed shared public responsibility for higher education.
When it comes to education, do we really want the marketplace to make policy?
The country’s uncertain experiment in charter schools gets a $250 million boost from a major foundation, while traditional public education struggles for needed funds.
