Por Alberto Medina Méndez.
Es llamativo observar cómo, cada vez con más frecuencia, lo superficial le gana espacio a lo profundo, lo irrelevante a lo significativo, lo anecdótico a lo sustancial.
El vaciamiento en las ideas, la debilidad argumental, la justificación simplista, todo ello, forma parte de esa larga lista de recursos que solo se enfocan en [...]
Por Inger Enkvist.
El conocido sociólogo británico Frank Furedi cuenta en la introducción de Wasted. Why education isn’t educating (2009) que decidió estudiar lo que ha pasado en la educación cuando su hijo cumplió cuatro años y Furedi y su esposa fueron inundados de consejos de otros padres sobre cómo escoger la mejor escuela. Más todavía [...]
By Christina Hoff Sommers, American Enterprise Institute.
Boys are falling behind girls in our nation’s schools. Fewer boys graduate from high school, and boys are less likely to attend college. One education expert has quipped that if current trends continue, the last male will graduate from college in 2068. A recent story in the New York Times carried more bad news for boys. A significant gender gap favoring girls has arisen inside New York City’s gifted and talented programs. According to the article, “Around the city, the current crop of gifted kindergartners…is 56 percent girls, and in the 2008-9 year, 55 percent were girls.” In some of the most elite programs, almost three-fifths of the prodigies are girls. Could it be that girls are simply smarter than boys?
By James Nava.
An interesting aspect of education, one that our teachers should pay special attention to in their classes, is communicating important human values that are being neglected and ignored in favor of an education designed exclusively as a tool to find employment in today’s market.
By Israel Ortega.
In perhaps President Obama’s most stealth campaign to date, the federal government has been slowly tightening its grip on the education sector to little fanfare. Rather than working through the democratic legislative process, this Administration has circumvented Congress to enact an ill-conceived education agenda that will weaken accountability, reduce transparency and minimize choice while only adding to the national deficit.
By David Muhlhausen, Ph.D. , Heritage Foundation.
The year 2010 will surely go down as a bad year for Head Start—a “Great Society” pre-school program intended to provide a boost to disadvantaged children before they enter elementary school.
By Michael Steele.
May 17, 2010
Washington (CNN) — Fifty-six years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in Brown v. Board of Education what our founders declared self-evident — that all men are created equal.
Until President Lincoln and the Republican Party abolished the horror of slavery, my ancestors were legally treated as mere chattel. Sadly, emancipation didn’t translate to equality back then, especially in the Democratically controlled segregated states. And tragically, Brown v. Board of Education was not the end of the story.
By James Nava.
The successful integration of Hispanic immigrants into American society is a crucial challenge for the nation, because future prosperity, as well as employment and educational opportunities for millions of people, depend on it. So it follows that programs and initiatives supporting immigrants’ education from the ground up are very important.
By James Nava.
Education is a field in which politics and private initiatives can contribute substantially to the improvement of our country as a whole as well as the progress of individual citizens. Specifically, the education of Hispanics presents stimulating challenges that must be faced with courage and innovation to build a better future for our country.
By James Nava.
A few weeks ago, the 6th Annual AP Report to the Nation was published by the College Board. The report makes reference to the growing number of Hispanic students successfully completing AP Exams, in the period from 2004 to 2009. Florida, a state with one of the largest Hispanic populations in the country, had especially positive results.
