Georgia’s HOPE scholarship program, established in 1993 and funded by the state lottery, is said to be going broke, according to Jack Stripling of Inside HigherEd in his September 21, 2101 article – Losing HOPE. State officials are faced with the problem of cutting participation, either by introducing academic guidelines (such as using SAT scores [...]
In 2003, John Taylor Gatto published a devastating analysis of public education in America called The Underground History of American Public Education. The Way It Used To Be, from which we take Chapter 1, republished here. Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls [...]
Roadkill Radio is a radio show produced by students at the Educational Center for the Arts, an Arts magnet high school in New Haven, Connecticut and broadcast over WPKN (89.5 FM) in Bridgeport. Welcome to Youth Radio Connecticut, directed by Richard Hill, a multi-disciplinary artist (music, dance, theatre and media arts) who is a Teaching [...]
Makoko is described as a slum community on the edge of the maritime metropolis, Lagos, in Nigeria, a water-bound urban community in which space is at a premium and people have built their homes out into the water. In the new book, The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World’s Poorest People Are [...]
Woodlawn’s writing center, called The Desert Island Supply Company, brings writers, students, educators and artists together. The goal of DISCO is to provide students in the area with opportunities to develop their writing skills. Free writing workshops are available for school-age students, and the group also works with local schools and teachers. Among other projects, [...]
Preschools in forests take root in the US By Manuel Valdes, Associated Press May 24, 12:57 ET Vashon Island, Washington When they’re outside, the children in Erin Kenny’s class don’t head for cover if it rains or snows. They stay right where they are — in a private five-acre forest. It’s their classroom. They spend [...]
A Birmingham City Archives newspaper clipping reminds us that Phillips High School and Parker High School , as well as Holtville High in rural Deatsville, Alabama, were applauded in a book called “Learning the Ways of Democracy: A Casebook in Civic Education.” The Birmingham News article, dated October 10, 1940, documented the research of the [...]
One in five teenagers is practically unemployable after leaving school, lacking the English and maths skills needed for everyday life, research suggests. by Graeme Paton, Education Editor Telegraph.co.UK May 7, 2010 3:24 PM The number of 16- to 19-year-olds rendered functionally illiterate or innumerate has failed to improve over the last two decades, the study [...]
The Barefoot College was founded in 1972 by Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy (b. 1945), a social activist and educator, in the town of Tilonia in Rajasthan, which is located in Northwestern India and encompasses much of India’s Thar desert. See this piece of a DVD entitled “Women of Tilonia” in which a woman describes her experience [...]
Here is an article suggesting that homeschooling has been the most successful political movement of the last twenty years. Read on…Homeschool Moms Rock The Political Scene by William Burton May 2, 2010 Proverbs 6:20 concludes with this: “Do not forsake your mother’s teaching.” There is a group that can be said to be taking this [...]
Teaching Inflation Mises Daily by T. Hunt Tooley April 22, 2010 I had a great teaching experience early last school year. I taught the history of inflation, and I have never timed a course better. I have taught in colleges and universities since 1985, and I have often thought about doing a course on the [...]
Stones Into Schools By Marilyn Gardner The Christian Science Monitor December 21, 2009 The inspiring sequel to “Three Cups of Tea” follows Greg Mortenson into remote Afghanistan where he continues his quest to build schools. Until this year, children living in one of the remotest corners of eastern Afghanistan could only dream of getting an [...]