Education leaders have long recognized that schools have unlimited needs and limited resources. As such, leaders must make difficult sacrifices. Lack of school funding, has led many education leaders to…
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Since 1961, schools throughout the nation have celebrated Youth Art Month, founded by the Crayon, Water Color and Craft Institute in cooperation with the National Education Association. Originally called Children’s…
Children are individuals with unique personalities, different abilities including learning strengths and preferences, diverse interests, and varied timetables for reaching developmental benchmarks. Why is it then those who have developed…
President Obama’s proposal to have the federal government pay for 75 percent of the average cost of community college is being embraced by Obama supporters as a return to “hope…
With the national school standards movement and other school reform discussions focusing narrowly on student test scores and teacher competency, they are missing a key part of the equation when…
I have been invited to give a graduation speech this spring. Trying to find a message relevant to the graduates of 2015 is a challenge. Study hard, because success in…
A recent issue of Time magazine (Rotten Apples, November 3, 2014) focused on the highly anticipated court ruling Vergara v. California, which struck down tenure laws in that state and…
I began my career in the 1970s, just when technology was being introduced into the classroom. Today, I remain fascinated by the promise that technology holds for the future of…
When the school shooting occurred in Sandy Hook I thought it would be a catalyst for change in our nation’s gun control laws. But with yet another instance of gun…
We all make lists – grocery shopping lists, to do lists, wish lists – which we use to make our lives easier by focusing priorities. For people that live by…
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