Now that you have had some time to ponder the bold idea that I left you with regarding parental engagement being tied to student promotion/graduation requirements, I would like to complete that radical thought. For those readers who are not quite on board with legislating parental responsibility when it comes…

There is no doubt that there are many stakeholders that need to be brought into the partnership that I believe is necessary for real education reform. Building a “National Education Consortium” that should, for all intents and purposes, become the main focus of a new United States Department of Education,…

By no means am I suggesting by the title of this week’s installment that there are no good educational models or “best practices” currently being used throughout the United States. Quite the contrary, in fact there are hundreds of great programs being offered to students in almost every State. What…

When the colonists began discussing the issue of education they were largely in agreement that their children should be educated. They proclaimed that the government, which was still in its formulation period, should be in some way responsible to see that every child be educated at least to a pre-determined…

“He that hath a trade hath an estate”. The genuine meaning of this statement is no less true now than it was when first penned by Benjamin Franklin within the pages of Poor Richards Almanac during the mid eighteenth century. In his diatribe of advice about life in the colonies…