by Sarah Green | May 30, 2016 | News
Former U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, spoke out last month in favor of public charter school education. Duncan believes those schools especially help students in low-income areas. Charter schools have proved a controversial topic within education...
by Sarah Green | Mar 14, 2014 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Twenty years ago, “alternative education” wasn’t the behemoth it has become today. With politics, economics, and contemporary education reform tangled into one giant mess in 2014, primary education as we know it has certainly taken a new shape in the twenty-first...
by Sarah Green | Feb 21, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
During his campaign, Bill de Blasio, now NYC’s newest mayor, said that charter schools with more money should be required to pay rent, one part of his plan to restructure school systems locally. Now putting his ideas into action, many of the city’s charter schools are...
by Sarah Green | Jan 17, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
In early January, 2014, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told the Brookings Institution that Republicans will continue to defend the “education revolution” that is taking power from traditional public schools and giving it to the parents. Currently many states are...
by Sarah Green | Oct 14, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Teach for America corps is a great addition to any young person’s resume, and it’s an honorable program to join just after college. It’s a path that appeals to the heartstrings of young college graduates, too, as they believe they are helping to close the...
