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April 28, 2010This past week New Jersey students took to the street in protest of Governor Chris Christie’s proposed cuts to education. The idea of the protest began when a former graduate of a New Jersey high school and current freshman in college, Michelle Ryan Lauto, decided to create a Facebook page expressing concern over the cuts. The page, which...
March 9, 2010This past week, President Obama took the podium along side of U.S. Secretary Arne Duncan, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and long-time education advocate and current chair of America’s Promise Alliance, Alma Powell to highlight the immense problem that America has: the high school dropout crisis. President Obama’s call...
February 10, 2010In President Obama’s recent State of the Union address, he reaffirmed his commitment to improving education in the United States. In his speech, he outlined four main problems he sees as primary issues that need to be addressed. First, the United States needs to improve our...
December 8, 2009At the alternative school where I teach, I spoke to a young man, Brian*, about his upcoming college applications. He is 15 years old. An incredibly bright young adult, he is eager to begin college where he will be challenged even further academically. Sounds pretty amazing, right? Even more amazing is the fact that just three years ago, he was...
November 4, 2009This past week, the Montgomery County school district in Maryland captured attention by striving to raise the compulsory school attendance age from 16 to 18. This brings to light an interesting debate that has been ongoing: should states raise the school attendance age to 18? It is up to individual states to set the compulsory...
October 14, 2009In a move popular with younger audiences, U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, recently appeared on the Colbert Report. After a rousing basketball game (where Colbert “beat” the Secretary), Secretary Duncan got serious to talk about what he sees as the future of education in the United States. In his appearance, he repeated...
September 14, 2009This past Wednesday, actress Jennifer Garner joined Senator House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, (D-MD), Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE), and Mark Shriver in a press conference to reauthorize the Full-Service Community School Act. The legislation, H.R. 3545 and S. 1655, would authorize $200 million per year for five years to fund federal grants for...