A Sunday Education Grab Bag

by David Safier This Sunday’s meta-Ed post is a collection of random items. Want to see today’s front page of your old local paper in Minneapolis or Calcutta, India, or Bogota, Columbia? Go to the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages site. You can view it as an interactive map — put your cursor on a spot … Read more

Independents: #1 Issue in Arizona is Education

by David Safier I didn’t read an article saying that Independents’ number one issue is education. My conclusion is based on a very informal, very unrepresentative sample. But I think it’s reasonably valid. Today I rang doorbells for Don Jorgensen who is running for the State House in LD-26. We only spoke to Independents, and … Read more

Show Me The Money, Senator Bee!

by David Safier (TASL) I agree with almost everything Tim Bee said in his op ed, Goal: Affordable, accessible universities. But there’s a serious problem here. The most powerful man in the Arizona Senate has floated all kind of feel-good educational proposals without a penny of new funding to back them up. The op ed … Read more

Mandatory Recess for Grades 1-6 in Arizona Schools?

by David Safier One of our readers, Steve Gall, a retired teacher, was up in Phoenix arguing in front of the Senate K-12 Committee that recess should be required in all elementary schools. (Steve is quoted in the article.) Steve posted a comment about his experience at the end of my latest diatribe about after … Read more

New Study Supports Comprehensive Sex Ed

by David Safier Awhile back I wrote about Napolitano turning down abstinence-only sex ed money from the feds. A few days ago, a commenter asked which other states had turned down the money. I couldn’t find an answer, until today, when I read about a new study that concluded students who had abstinence-only education were … Read more