From Education News

Pearson Common Core expert: Was George Washington any different from Palestinian terrorists..? If a Palestinian suicide bomber kills several dozen Israeli teenagers in a Jerusalem restaurant, is that an act of terrorism or wartime retaliation against Israeli government policies and army actions?

 Ed Sec. Arne Duncan Launches Unilateral Education Equity - Duncan said he just cannot continue to wait for Congress to respond to the needs of children.

 Despite Success, Some Shortcomings in Texas Higher Ed - We had done a lot of work on the demographics, and everybody knew what was coming in terms of becoming a majority-minority state.

 Report: Most US Teacher Training Programs Are Still Awful - National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has graded every teacher training program in the United States and most have been found severely wanting.

National teachers union wants Education secretary’s resignation over tenure flap
The nation's largest teachers' union wants Education Secretary Arne Duncan to quit.

Dinesh D’Souza’s America and Our Schools...the teaching of American history in our high schools has just been seized in what a few sharp-eyed critics rightly call a curricular coup.

The College Board, the Common Core, and the world without America - in many localities. But local control of education has prevented a total rout. Until now.

Bill Gates needs to drop his Common Core obsession - The billionaire's latest little fixation is catching hell on all sides. Here's why he's better off simply moving on

 Google abandons its neighbors A few short miles from multi-million pound homes and the booming Silicon Valley, several hundred homeless people live in squalor

Labour proposes technical degrees - Labour leader Ed Miliband is to propose "technical degrees" - putting vocational subjects on an equal footing with traditional academic degrees.

University of Colorado Bias Report Prompts Alarm - University of Colorado campuses support prejudice and discrimination by their pinko commie professors.

Higher Ed, Clinton Extravagance, and an American Pathology - Notwithstanding administrators’ cowardice, the speaking fees did come from private donations.

Breaking Bad actor emphasizes need for school choices - Recognizing that there’s no single best school for all students and providing strong options are central to the charter public school movement.

Charter school supporters response to investigations is Soviet in style - While some charters do an excellent job, many don’t. There is essentially no effective oversight, and bad schools stay open year after year.