Teach Plus, 06/27/12

Teacher voice organization

As a science teacher, I learned a great deal by putting on my writing teacher hat. I also learned how important it is for students to see how all content can relate on an interdisciplinary level.

Bruce Wilson, 06/27/12

Writes on religion and politics

Romney's proposed K-12 education plan for America would redirect $26 billion in federal funding to pay for students to attend private schools; some of those would be religious schools that use Bob Jones University Press curriculum.

Odunola Ojewumi, 06/27/12

Founder, Sacred Hearts Children’s Transplant Foundation and Project ASCEND

In the eyes of Charles Hamilton Houston, education was the key to disassembling systems of inequality. Houston utilized the law as a method to forge a dent in the American institution of social segregation.

Rick Ayers, 06/26/12

Professor in Teacher Education at the University of San Francisco

While many educators believe the development of a just, multicultural society is central to our values, very powerful forces have been fighting against such a vision for decades.

Kenneth Danford, 06/26/12

Co-Founder, North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens

Why can't school be more like camp? My daughter spends just three weeks at her camp, and nine months in school. I want her to wake up thrilled about school, too.

Mike Green, 06/26/12

Award-winning journalist; Public Speaker on Black Education & Innovation

I turned their dreams into goals by asking them to put a time frame on it. We then worked backward from their goal to present-day circumstances, and set milestones for them to achieve along the path toward their goal.

Richard Guarasci, 06/27/12

President, Wagner College

Higher education needs to help the public to appreciate how it creates, refines and applies knowledge and how this leads to specific and pragmatic solutions to current social and economic problems.

David Halperin, 06/26/12

Senior Fellow, United Republic / Republic Report

On Tuesday, the federal government released information about which career training programs and for-profit colleges are passing -- and which are flunking -- its new "gainful employment" rule.

Elaine Vilorio, 06/26/12

High school junior in New Jersey

People need to realize that the goodness that comes with speaking out against a collective injustice far outweighs collective opposition. The treatment for bystander syndrome is courage.

Ben Hecht, 06/26/12

CEO Living Cities

Technology is not a panacea, only a means to an end. Increasing access to broadband and the Internet are an important first step, but we also need to find better ways of applying this technology to accelerate progress and prosperity for all.

Brock Cohen, 06/26/12

Freelance writer, humorist, educator

I'm sorry for Alaina and for all the extraordinary teachers throughout California who have been unceremoniously dispatched -- and to the multitudes of students whose education will suffer for it.

Michael Haberman, 06/26/12

President, PENCIL

We say that there is nothing more important than our children's education. Yet we aren't making the investments we need to recruit the best and brightest to become teachers.

Nick Kolakowski, 06/26/12

Editor and freelance writer

For aspiring intellectuals, a role model proves all the pondering and toil can (against all odds) end in recognition, validation, and triumph.

Susan Blumenthal, M.D., 06/26/12

Public Health Editor at HuffPost and Former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General

Significantly reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is a key component in solving America's obesity crisis.

Alecia DeCoudreaux, 06/26/12

President, Mills College

Considering the extent that young people are using new media to communicate their political views or exhort others to action, one has to wonder about the accuracy and veracity of the information they're using to formulate their message.

Don McNay, 06/26/12

Best-selling author,'What to Do When You Win the Lottery' & 'Wealth Without Wall Street'

Facebook gave me a unique opportunity: the chance to say 'thank you' to a man who made a difference in my life.

John Thompson, 06/26/12

Award-winning Historian and Inner City Teacher

Before choice, I would not have understood what it was like to teach a class where eight to ten kids had been traumatized so badly that their cognitive functions had been altered. After a decade of choice, that became my new normal.