Mother jailed for sending kids to better school

Posted by Terrylynn Tyrell on Jan 27, 2011 at 3:07 PM

ABC News reports that an Ohio mother has been jailed for sending her children to a good school. Kelley Williams-Bolar had been sending her daughters to a school regarded as better than her own, but located in a different school…

Critique of “common core” education standards

Posted by Terrylynn Tyrell on Aug 23, 2010 at 4:58 PM

The “common core standards,” an effort by the states to coordinate their school curriculums, needs a greater emphasis on interdisciplinary education and citizenship, according to a piece in Education Week.

“Their near-total silence on the role of education in…