by David Safier Admittedly, this is a complex set of issues, but they deserve more coverage than I've seen in the Arizona media. Arizona's ELL programs are undergoing scrutiny on two fronts. First, Arizona is back in court on the decades old Flores v. State of Arizona case about the quality — or lack of … Read more
by David Safier The decades old fight over the quality of Arizona's ELL education will be played out in a Tucson courtroom from Wednesday through Friday this week. The history of court battles over Flores v State of Arizona has reached legendary proportions. People supporting more state support for ELL education are asking others to … Read more
by David Safier This speaks volumes about the way our Accidental Guv sees our classrooms, and pretty much the way she would like to see the state in general. Here's the photo that heads the Improving Our Schools page on Brewer's campaign website: Count them. One, two, three, four, five lovely anglo faces. Count once … Read more
by David Safier I had to find this on my own, because, so far as I can tell, it hasn't been publicized by the Goldwater Institute, but Jay Greene did in fact respond in reasonable detail to ASU's criticism of his report claiming university administrations are growing faster than their student population. I'm posting about … Read more
by David Safier If Jay Greene were confident about the quality of the research in his report claiming university adminstrations have grown faster than the growth in their student bodies, he would proudly refute the specific charges that he used shoddy, slanted research techniques. Greene is a college prof who does scholarly research as part … Read more