Rishawn Biddle
Last week’s passage of a school district bailout bill should have elicited a joyful noise from Democrats and their allies, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. After all, by coming up with $10 billion in subsidies…
The notion that America’s worst public schools can be improved by simply replacing principals and some of their teachers, is as much a part of President Barack Obama’s master plan to reform the nation’s education system as it is of…
Passengers aboard a wide-body jet sit awaiting their arrival to an American city. Suddenly, one passenger — a son of a prosperous Nigerian family-turned-Islamic terrorist — attempts a suicide bombing by detonating the chemical bomb he managed to sneak through…
Considering its role in sparking the most-important teachers union strike in American history five decades ago with its shutdown of New York City’s schools, and the years it has since spent making teaching the public sector profession most-insulated from performance…
Birch Evans (Evan) Bayh III is the last person factoring into the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee’s efforts to retain control of the upper house. Amid abysmal poll numbers for Majority Leader Harry Reid, Pennsylvania’s Arlen Specter and Connecticut’s Christopher Dodd,…
Nineteen percent of black male students and 16 percent of their white male peers attending Cleveland’s public schools in the 2005-2006 school year were labeled with some form of learning disability. This meant that they were likely placed into the…
The Latino teens graduating from the Animo Leadership High School just outside Los Angeles probably aren’t familiar with the arguments for expanding Head Start and pre-kindergarten programs offered by advocates such as Nobel Laureate James Heckman. And the Latino middle-schoolers…
When it comes to governors, mayors and even pundits, the school reform movement has no difficulty selling them on its formula of standardized tests, stricter accountability measures, mayoral control of school districts and expansion of school choice. This can be…
Greg Ballard captured the national spotlight in 2007 when he managed to defeat the re-election bid of the Indianapolis Bart Peterson, one of the rising superstars on the national Democratic Party scene. With just $300,000 in campaign donations, little support…
