by David Safier Here's part of an email I received today from Voices for Education: Please call your legislators and urge them to NOT cut any funding to publicschools. Cuts to K-12 Education shouldn't be the first place we look toaddress the budget shortfall. The Arizona Legislature is going into special session on the state's … Read more
by David Safier It looks like funding for Arizona public education will be cut as part of budget balancing. I'd say this is a race to the bottom, but Arizona is already there — either 49th or 50th in per pupil school spending. Maybe we'll get lucky and state number 47 48 is in an even … Read more
by David Safier Yesterday I wrote about an online, 33 question Civics Quiz you can take to see how much you know about general U.S. civics and history. Today I saw a breakdown of scores by age on Kevin Drum's blog. I don't want to read too much into this. It's not a good random sample … Read more
by David Safier The headline may overstate things a bit, but allow this retired high school English teacher a little license. I love stories like this. Twenty year old Noelle Lopez, Tucson native and Salpointe grad, has won a Rhodes Scholarship and will study at Oxford. The best part for me are the other qualities … Read more
by David Safier If you think taking tests is fun (when your future doesn't depend on it), here's a good one: a Civics Quiz. Thirty-three questions about our government and to some extent our history. Like all these things, it puts more stock in pure memory than I would like, and I found a few … Read more