The Illinois State Board of Education has been granted a waiver to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) that will institutionalize racism in our public school system. How is the education bureaucracy doing this? The state is changing the standards students have to meet by “RACE”. Yes, each race will have a separate standard to meet over the […]
Limiting Education Choices
April 7, 2014 by Leave a Comment
After several weeks of trying to teach my second grader how to ride a bicycle, I became pretty frustrated. I tried instructing Gracie the same way my parents taught me when I was 6. But I couldn’t understand what was going wrong. My poor mother must have run miles up and down West Street in […]
TED: Re-imagining School Series
January 23, 2014 by 2 Comments
Click image to play the entire series and read Education Delivery - time for a change. 1. Ken Robinson: How schools kill creativity 2. Salman Khan: Let’s use video to reinvent education 3. Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud 4. Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from online education 5. Geoff Mulgan: A short […]
Education Delivery - Time for a change
January 10, 2014 by 15 Comments
In Conjunction with Jack Roeser The delivery of education has remained basically the same for the past century while other industries have changed delivery methods accordingly with technological advances. To compare, let’s first look at a summary of a couple of other industries: Music Industry Delivery [Overview of Presentation by Derrell Bradford]: Live Performance - […]
Bruce Rauner: No Excuse Video
December 30, 2013 by 3 Comments
Bruce Rauner has released a new video. It was also played right before halftime of the Bears Packers game last night. The video highlights Rauner’s views on education. From Rauner press release: “I know the government union bosses will attack me for it, but I’ll keep fighting for better schools until every child in Illinois […]
Illinois Charter School Commission and Education Choice for the Underprivileged
December 14, 2013 by 32 Comments
Democratic State Senator Kimberly Lightford and Democratic Representative Linda Chapa-Lavia introduced bills (House Bill 3754, Senate Bill 2627 ) in their respective chambers to kill the Illinois Charter School Commission. This legislation, as it is currently written, also kills any appeals process if a local school district denies a charter school application. Sen. Lightford did not […]
A moratorium on online learning means missed opportunities for Illinois’ children
April 12, 2013 by 4 Comments
SPRINGFIELD – The most startling thing about being a parent for me is how remarkably different each of my three daughters are. It’s as if each was born with a distinct personality. And while they are all bright girls, they learn in distinctly different ways. My 7-year-old- Grace loves to draw and paint, and needs […]