East High School renovations for an annex to house severely disabled students are on target for the opening of school on August 15. In spite of assurances by the District’s chief of operations, Delano parents remain skeptical that the school will be ready to open and are concerned that training for teachers will not be […]
No one can accuse Joe Williams of censuring a particular person or group of people for the perceived decline in public education over the last several decades. In Cheating Our Kids: How Politics and Greed Ruin Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Mr. Williams asserts that there is plenty of blame to go around—from teachers’ unions to […]
In a town hall meeting at Howard University, Bill Cosby and other panelists began a frank discussion about the state of education in our nation. The program, “About Our Children”, aired on MSNBC on September 20, 2009. Dr. Cosby pleads with parents to BE there for their children and stop asking schools to do the job that should be done at home. Watch excerpts from the broadcast or leave your comment by clicking on the link above.
