Category — Equal Opportunity

Today, you do not have to enter the hallowed halls of MIT to have access to an MIT education. At the MIT OpenCourse website, interested learners are now but a click of a mouse away from the curriculum of 1,800 courses offered at tone of the premiere educational institutions in America.
That means access to [...]

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Over the past few days we have focused a great deal on technology, particularly the possibilities of technology to enhance teaching and learning. As we ponder the potential, it is important to recognize that many educators view all these new gadgets very negatively. In fact, many see them as nothing more than a giant nuisance.
Technology [...]

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The $399 promotion that allows a person to purchase a $188 computer and donate a second to a child in a developing country has been extended until the end of the year. The “Give One, Get One” is the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte and is part of the nonprofit effort called the “One Laptop Per [...]

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If you are looking for a chance to help shape the future of American Education then you are encouraged to participate in the annual Speak Up 2007 survey administered by Project Tomorrow (formerly known as NetDay). Everyone, students, parents, teachers, and even K-12 administrators are invited to take part in the annual survey that [...]

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You had to love the first line in the STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE.
The report cards are out and for once it’s not the students who were sweating.
Utilizing a complex set of measurements, the first ever set of progress report cards on New York City schools were made public. All 1,224 schools citywide were evaluated. The results [...]

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Whenever someone starts to talk about the impacts of illegal immigration I think of the impact it had on one school superintendent, David Verducci.
It could have been my name that people remember, but I was fortunate. During my initial meeting with the Director of the English as a Second Language program in my new district, [...]

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The issue of illegal immigration continues to be an important one for most Americans even if Congress and the President seem unwilling to move forward to create a bipartisan solution to the issue. While the anger mounts among many Republicans and Democrats alike, it is interesting to see just some of the impact of illegal [...]

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We have written a great deal in recent weeks about the issue of school dropouts. We spent time discussing the horrific situation in California as well as the current plan to address the problem in Los Angeles. We wrote about the recent Johns Hopkins research labeling numerous schools as dropout factories.
So it was with great [...]

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Yesterday I noted the recent op ed piece of Dan Brown in which he told the tale of three students being ill-served by NCLB. Today we take a further look at the research regarding the situation involving Eddie.
Eddie has attendance issues with school as well as poor test scores. The result, according to Brown, Eddie [...]

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In a recent Op-Ed piece published in the New York Times and the Boston Globe, teacher Dan Brown reveals how the standardized testing associated with NCLB can actually have disastrous consequences for kids. Brown is the author of “The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle” and is deemed a young [...]

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