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The 2012 AFSA Scholarship Application is Now Available
Attention AFSA Members: The 2012 AFSA Scholarship application is now available to students who will be attending college next fall. Applications are due Feb. 29, 2012. For more information and to download the application, click on the link above.
Preparing For Back To School
In the coming weeks, we will open school buildings sorely in need of repair, some lacking supplies and equipment and many in unsafe areas. Yet, we will cast a spell to ignore most of this as we watch teachers transform classrooms into oases of tactile learning centers. We will preserve the sanity of a good, well-rounded education for every child in spite of the world’s outcry for increased test scores.
It’s The Poverty, Stupid
The urgent call for radical changes to public education being trumpeted by business leaders is predicated on the assertion that America’s public schools are literally failing. The evidence insistently offered in support of their missionary zeal is the “fact” that U.S. students lag far behind students internationally.
The Missing Link in School Reform
Originally published on The Huffington Post May 2011.
Test-Driven Education Reform Could Set Up Kids To Fail
Originally published on The Huffington Post February 2011.
School Reform or Permanent Underclass?
Originally published on The Huffington Post December 2010.
Supermarkets, Not Superman
Originally published on The Huffington Post October 2010.
The Summer Soldiers of School Reform
Originally published on The Huffington Post October 2010.
The Audacity of Hopelessness
Originally published on The Huffington Post September 2010.