The Chicago Teachers Union strike continues Monday after a failure to resolve the strike, now into its second week with 350,000 children affected by the standoff. There had been some optimism that the union officials, who met Sunday afternoon, would vote in favor of the agreement negotiated on their behalf by...

Why is Obama abandoning the Chicago Teachers Union, just as he abandoned the Wisconsin unions during the Walker recall?

As the Chicago Teachers Union strike drags on another day without an agreement, and a CTU lawyer says the next hope is that an agreement will be reached Sunday, the president remains mum...

The Chicago Teachers Union, after a summer of threats and miscellaneous protest actions, announced a date for their strike of September 10 this Thursday. CTU released a copy of their resolution on the website:

The strike is necessary to achieve a labor contract with acceptable wages, benefits and job protections; and for all...

*UPDATE 4/25: EAG released a second video on “Gender-Bender” day at the school.

Chicago public school Jones College Prep apparently believes school is the appropriate venue to train students in nonviolent protesting:

Philip Jackson was brought in to lead the training and provide students with specific ideas like “building a cemetery with the...

This Friday, a national “Day of Silence” protest enjoined students across the country to take a vow of silence in protest of harassment of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual) students:

The Day of Silence is a student-led national event that brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. Students from...

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of sitting in on a lecture given by Dr. Richard Baer, professor emeritus of environmental ethics and education, at an event hosted by the Cornell Republicans.

Baer spoke at length about how, in their rush to ensure that they’re not promoting religious values, state-run and other “non-sectarian” schools...

considering that I finished high skool before the creashion of the U.S. Deparment of Edjukation in 1980.

If there were federal mandates, bureaucracies, and of course, No Child Left Behind, when I was in skool …

I actually might have amounted to somethin and not needed my own personal prufreeder.

If the DoE disappeared tomorrow,...

Dear Rahm,

Governor Christie has a right to get testy when questioned on his family’s decision to send their children to parochial school because he’s working to give all children the opportunity to get a great education, be it in a public school or elsewhere. You, however, are a union tool and,...

at legalinsurrection.blogspot.com? It’s possible, but the day is not over.

The most amazing thing to me is not that Christie tells the voter that it’s none of her business where he sends his kids to school, but that he pays $38,000 per year in property taxes.  Ouch.

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1

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From The Cornell Sun:

Although Cornell’s female faculty report higher levels of satisfaction than they did in 2005, male faculty still say they are happier with their jobs than their female colleagues...

You can’t make this stuff up.

I posted earlier about a school which banned the singing of Happy Birthday out of fear of, well, it’s a little hard to articulate the irrational.

But that’s not the real story, according to Peter Daou, who uses the follo...

One elementary school instituted a Taliban-like ban on singing “Happy Birthday” for fear of upsetting students who were not participating in the celebration (or something like that):

A ban on singing “Happy Birthday” lasted all of four days at Chesterfield Elementary School in Missouri after angry parents bombarded the school with complaints.

“Singing is not...

Ethan Haines is a law school graduate who blogs at unemployedJD.com, a website devoted to the plight of law students who graduate with loads of student loan debt and few job prospects.

Glenn Reynolds has written of the higher

Another “emergency” and pending “catastrophe” is being used to justify more federal government spending to support unsustainable teachers’ union contracts:

Education Secretary Arne Duncan says President Obama “absolutely supports” a congressional proposal for $23 billion in emergency education spending in order to stave off teacher layoffs and cancellation of summer classes.

Duncan...

The federal Department of Education has released a script for pre-K through 6th grade teachers to use in conjunction with Barack Obama’s “historic” nationwide speech to elementary school students on September 8.

The script instructs teachers to use the following questions with the students after the speech:

What do you think the President...