Julie Collier, Executive Director of Parents Advocate League, shares her story of why she fights so hard for change in education during teacher appreciation week: Dear Ms. M., As our family takes time during Teacher Appreciation Week to celebrate the teachers that have blessed our children, we are reminded how truly important the profession of…

Newswire: Tuesday May 7, 2013 SPECIAL EDITION WHY NATIONAL CHARTER SCHOOLS WEEK IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE by Jeanne Allen "People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after." --Oliver Goldsmith (‘In other words, self-reflection is essential but seeing others exhibit characteristics or actions that are worth learning from is…

A fantastic opinion piece by education reform pioneer T. Willard Fair appeared on Tallahassee.com on April 19, 2013: There has long been a troubling attitude in our society about low-income parents. Put bluntly, it goes like this: Poor people make poor parents. Of course, folks in proper circles usually don’t come right out and say…

Solve the education problem, teach students about their nation's founding, its economic model and what we should and shouldn't expect government to do for us, and you achieve financial literacy.

The reality is that while school and school district bean counters most likely know for certain what money they have, what funds they might lose and how, the US Education Secretary clearly doesn't, and superintendents and school board officials aren't saying. After all, it's easier to create a problem than a solution.

In light of this week’s State of the Union and a renewed focus on how to fix our educational deficiencies, it’s time for us all to engage in a little history lesson. This spring will mark 30 years since A Nation at Risk was issued.

February 12, 2013 To the Editor: Regarding “More Lessons About Charter Schools” (Feb. 1), the conclusions of the report covered in the editorial are based on misguided methodology criticized by well-regarded researchers, at the heart of which are comparisons of school performance across states, which have uneven and varying definitions and levels of standards and…

Tonight, President Obama will give the first State of the Union address of his second term in office, an opportunity for the president to raise issues critical to improving our nation’s schools, one of the most important domestic policy opportunities of our time.

LETTER TO FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM NO. 105 February 2013 Download or print your PDF copy of A Nation at Risk, A Movement Ahead: The Future of CER [pdf issuu_pdf_id="130211131227-c905895afd9b466d8f2e11859922b2e2" layout="2" width="640" height="480" bgcolor="FFFFFF" allow_full_screen_="1" flip_timelaps="6000" ]

To ask the question about closing schools, as if this were a movement based on reason and fact, is an affront to the seriousness of the issue. From Arne Duncan to Howard Fuller to this writer and millions in between there is near universal agreement that no child should be forced to attend a failing…