by David Safier This is encouraging. After last year's debacle where TUSD tried to close some schools from the top down and got so much blowback it retreated, this year the district is trying a rewards based, bottom up approach that appears to be bearing fruit. TUSD has told schools, if you can join together … Read more
by David Safier Sigh. I posted the other day about rising tuition costs nationwide moving access to college back toward the rich, which is a dramatic reversal of our recent efforts toward greater social mobility through higher education. When money, not merit, determines who get the college degrees from the top schools, mediocrity and increased … Read more
by David Safier There you go again, as Ronald Reagan once said. The Goldwater Institute is once again demonstrating that nothing it says should be taken at face value. Its arguments are usually a strange concoction of facts, half facts and purposeful omissions. And Matthew Ladner, who is a smart guy with a good, logical … Read more
by David Safier I could play good-news/bad-news with this item all day. The Princeton Review has put UA and ASU in its top 100 list of the Best Value Colleges for 2010. Good news: Hey, you get good bang for your university buck in Arizona! Bad news: If, after all our recent tuition hikes, we're … Read more
by David Safier The rest of you are welcome to follow the link and read this piece by Anthony Mullen, who was recently named National Teacher of the Year. But I think teachers and administrators will be the ones who most appreciate Mullen's wit and wisdom. The setting is, Mullen is sitting in a round … Read more