New Orleans A+ Arkansas, initiated by the Thea Foundation and its director, Paul Leopoulos, may be proving that there are some real tools for improving public schools, the educational grasp and performance of students, regardless of race and income, and salvage the careers and idealism of teachers while doing so. How do they pull off …
Category: Education
Teachers Made the Difference, but Gates Foundation Fudges on the Test
New Orleans The Gates Foundation released a study finding that good teachers made a difference in producing good education for students. Is there anyone out there alive today who ever thought for a minute that teachers don’t make the difference? Gates has a lot of money, but why spend it on something proving the obvious? …
Federal Judge Holds Vouchers are Resegretation in Louisiana with More to Come
New Orleans A federal judge in Louisiana took a hard shot to the gut to the conservative efforts to provide public money to help some parents pay for their children to escape public schools. He called it what it was: an effort to re-segregate the school system. The basis of the decision was equally clear. …