by Ed311 Staff | Jul 11, 2014 | Ed311 Blog
President Obama sat down this week for lunch at the White House with Education Secretary Arne Duncan and four teachers to talk about education, teaching and school reform. What the teachers said to Obama is explained in the following post by Justin Minkel, the 2007...
by Ed311 Staff | Jul 9, 2014 | Ed311 Blog
We’ve all heard the saying “change is constant.” As the president and CEO of Barium Springs, I’m often asked, “Why isn’t Barium Springs an orphanage any longer?” I then ask them if they know of any institution or organization that is the same as they were 100, 50 or...
by Ed311 Staff | Jul 2, 2014 | Ed311 Blog
For supporters of education reform, a recent decision by California Judge Rolf Treu, ruling teacher tenure unconstitutional, was transformational. Now schools can freely fire bad teachers and put the U.S. back on top as the best educational system in the world. Of...
by Ed311 Staff | Apr 21, 2014 | Ed311 Blog
Sara Stevenson is the librarian at O. Henry Middle School in Austin, Texas, who is sick and tired of assaults on the very notion of public education. Here are her reflections on the value of public education and what is being done to it in the name of ”‘reform.” As a...
by Ed311 Staff | Apr 16, 2014 | Ed311 Blog
Sitting in class as a student, one of the last things you think about is where all of the classroom supplies came from. The school fairy, maybe? But realistically, at least some of them probably came out of the teacher’s own wallet. The perks of being a teacher...
