Ed Jones's Blog (17)

The battle broke

Barack Obama promised today to double funding for charter schools, pay teachers based on performance and replace those who aren't up to the job, embracing education proposals normally more popular with Republican candidates.

In remarks Thursday night at a forum on national service, both presidential candidates criticized universities — such as the forum’s host, Columbia University — that do not welcome Reserve Officers Training Corps programs on their campuses. Sen. John McCain said, according to an account in Bloomberg: “We’re here in a wonderful institution, but

Though it offers a few uplifting scenes, Hard Times at Douglass High is mostly a picture of failure and despair in one Baltimore school. The year before it was filmed, only 10 percent of Douglass students passed the Maryland state English exam and only one percent passed in algebra. By the end of their freshman year, 50 percent of the school's ninth graders will eit

Characteristics of the Broader, Bolder Approach Consistent with these two principles, we propose a broader, bolder approach with the following four priorities: •Continue to pursue school improvement efforts. Research support

Decades-long ties between civil rights groups and teachers unions could be split by a new effort, led by the Rev. Al Sharpton and New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, to close the nagging achievement gap between white and minority students. Sharpton, a Baptist pastor and political gadfly, says that fo