The Edurati Review

If we are to create "tomorrow's" educational organization and model, are the leaders of "yesterday's" model the leaders we will need to build "tomorrow's" model? If education is to be transformed, should we not transform its leaders...

Authored by Brian Jason Ford, EsquirePortions of this post originally appeared in the Education Law News Letter published by Dischell, Bartle, Yanoff & Dooley, P.C. My colleague, Kyle J...

But time keeps flowing like a river (on and on)To the sea, to the sea’til it's gone forever… At least that’s what the Alan Parsons Project suggested in their hit song. But poets and songwriters aren’t the only ones seemingly consumed by the passage of time. Educat...

crossposted from Daily KosI was, perhaps appropriately, listening to a recording of the Brahms Requiem when I saw the email: Greg Kannerstein had passed away...

is the focus of a new book by Sam Chaltain, National Director of the Forum for Education and Democracy. Sam previously worked with the First Amendment Schools Project, an experience that helped shaped this book...

I have an idea…"It will never work.""We don’t have the budget to do it.""It will take to much time and we just don’t have any to waste.""The district won’t like it.""Teachers won’t want to do that.""That isn’t the way we do things at this school.""What does that have to... do with test scores?"The...

by Jason Flom, Ecology of EducationWhere do you point your students for news? Fox? NBC? NPR? NY Times? CNN? When you want something a bit different, something less corporate, where do you look? Media Matters? The Daily Show? Indy Media? Rush? Huffington? Crooks and Liars...

Dear Mr. President,I am writing to you as a National Board Certified Social Studies Teacher who voted for your as President even despite my concerns about your approach to educational policy...

Every teacher experiences the frustration. Content and skills taught throughout the year seem to abandon students during springtime standardized testing. “How can they not know this?” thinks the the teacher. “W...

Social & Economic Goals of SchoolingAuthored by: E. Lee RakesThe social goals of schooling can be thought of as behavior management, or even behavior suppression in some circumstances, whereby students are taught values through schooling systems to become better citizens...

By Jason Flom, Ecology of EducationOn a recent field trip, neither my students nor I was at threat of being eaten alive by a t-rex.Why, despite ruling Earth for nearly 80 million years (even longer than Wall Street barons), are Cretaceous period animals not regularly chowing on our gizzards...

When SCOTUS Says No- A look at one of the cases that the Supreme Court will not hear this term -This article originally appeared in the Education Law News Letter published by Dischell, Bartle, Yanoff & Dooley, P.C...

Curiously, curiosity is no-where to be found in reform measures being debated today. Rather, curiosity is left to scrub the proverbial floors of our education institutions. It's the forgotten and malnourished stepdaughter of NCLB and mistreated stepsister of Race to the Top...

In the tradition of An Inconvenient Truth, please join DC School Reform Now and Democrats for Education Reform as we present "The Critical Need for School Reform and How to Achieve It." At this free presentation, noted education reform advocate and DFER co-founder Whitney Tilson will discuss the...