School Reform at BellaOnline.com

If the public school system is to produce a unified, compassionate citizenry, then a different approach is needed in the earliest grades.

Statistics from the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future found that “in urban districts, close to 50 percent of newcomers leave the profession during their first five years of teaching.” Teachers are leaving the profession because they are being treated with the same sort of contempt

Something is not right when the same adults who are able to perform basic math functions and recall song lyrics and sports statistics are unable to spell the words they use in day-to-day writing.

As long as it’s possible to obtain a doctorate in education, classroom teachers are going to be deluged with “research-based innovations” of doubtful value.

School reform that pretends that every child MUST go to college is abysmally unhelpful.