Breakfast shouldn’t be on the principals

 
 
“For Superintendent Arlene Ackerman, it’s not enough that the Philadelphia School District offers free breakfast to every single child in every single city school. Now, principals must coax the students into eating it.
 
Under a new district policy, principals will be held accountable for the number of student breakfasts eaten in each school. District officials reason [...]

Instead of promoting ‘social justice,’ let’s promote our humanness

 
by Christopher Paslay
Fighting for social justice, the 21st century term for “equality” or “civil rights,” is the hippest thing since wearing pink for breast cancer.  Topped only by going green, promoting social justice has become the latest adopted cause of politicians, universities, educational researchers, and of course, the starry-eyed, idealistic school teachers fresh out of [...]

Sharpton, Gingrich and Duncan: Rebuilding America’s Schools, Brick by Brick

 
 by Silence Dogood
The official word is in: There is hope for education!  This encouraging conclusion was drawn by Al Sharpton, the race-hustling, anti-Semitic demagogue who in 1983 was caught on FBI surveillance tape discussing a cocaine deal; Newt Gingrich, the draft dodger and serial adulterer who admitted to cheating on his wife while leading the impeachment proceedings against [...]