Susan D. Blum, 09/12/12

Professor and chair, Department of Anthropology, Notre Dame

You have probably heard that more than 100 Harvard students have been accused of unauthorized collaboration. As someone who has studied college cheating, I find this case provocative. Here are some of the things I wish to say about it.

Alma and Colin Powell, 09/12/12

Chairman and Founding Chair, America's Promise Alliance

While the U.S. sent more than 500 athletes to London, back home, 7,000 students dropped out in just one day. Those athletes represented our nation, but so do the young people who drop out of school.

R. Barbara Gitenstein, 09/12/12

President, The College of New Jersey

The mission of 4-year colleges and universities is not simply to prepare future employees. We must prepare thoughtful and engaged citizens who have broad perspectives, open minds, and diverse abilities.

Richard Brodsky, 09/12/12

Senior Fellow, Demos

The seemingly out-of-the-blue Chicago teachers strike is deeply complicated, very important, and a potential political game-changer. Every question about American education and the presidential race is part of the strike.

Sabrina Stevens, 09/12/12

AFT Voices From The Classroom

As in many cases throughout our history, it is the educators and public school advocates standing on the picket lines who can rightly claim they stand for children (and everyone else!) -- not the officials who forced them into the streets, or those officials' allies.

Teach Plus, 09/12/12

Teacher voice organization

To do our work well, we need support. All too often, our administrators are overburdened with other issues; they're rarely able to offer the ongoing support and feedback that teachers crave.

Jack Jennings, 09/12/12

Founder, and former President, Center on Education Policy

All of the Republicans' talk about giving parents the right to choose in education is a politically expedient strategy -- just beneath the surface of the rhetoric are political motivations to thwart integration, weaken the Democratic coalition, and cripple the teachers' unions.

Michael Brown, 09/12/12

CEO and Co-Founder, City Year

Just 12 percent of America's high schools produce half of the nation's dropouts. For an education moon shot, improving the nation's chronically underperforming schools is where the Eagle has to land. And like the moon landing, it will take new technologies to solve the dropout crisis.

David Allyn, 09/12/12

Director of Education, New Jersey SEEDS

Perhaps we reap what we sow. If we assume that children are a "problem" to be solved (to be controlled or crammed full of knowledge or taught how to behave), are we creating a self-fulfilling prophecy?

William E. White, 09/12/12

Royce R. & Kathryn M. Baker Vice President Productions, Publications, and Learning Ventures for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Our Constitution is constantly bandied about, quoted, cited, and interpreted by every pundit from every media outlet and every political persuasion. Don't just take their word for it. What do you actually know about the Constitution? What do your children know about the Constitution?

Alyssa Granacki, 09/11/12

Teach For America corps member

As the Chicago Teachers Union begins their strike, I can empathize with some of their demands. However, I do not believe the solution is to abandon our responsbility to our children.

Joseph A. Palermo, 09/11/12

Associate professor, historian, author

The timing of the strike couldn't be worse for the Democrats, and therefore packs a potent punch nationally because it lays bare how toxic the relationship between teachers and Democratic Party leaders has become in recent years.

Glen Lineberry, 09/11/12

High School Teacher

When I was in school, teachers mostly ran the school. Teachers decided what we were ready to learn, what to teach us, and how to make sure we stayed on track. Why did this change?

Anjali Deshpande and Pedro Noguera, 09/11/12

The Virginia Department of Education has essentially institutionalized low expectations.

Elizabethe C. Payne and Melissa J. Smith, 09/11/12

Recently we published a blog addressing educator reactions to the presence of transgender children in elementary schools. Since then we have received requests for more specific information about our vision for proactive policies and practices. This is a response to those questions.

Daniel R. Porterfield, Ph.D., 09/11/12

President, Franklin & Marshall College

This past summer I witnessed the actions of three sets of change-makers giving themselves over completely to education as the best way to empower young people, break cycles of poverty and create a brighter future for America.

David Mednicoff, 09/11/12

Director, Middle Eastern Studies, UMass-Amherst

Some of the worst offenders on the right are correct to see professors as a challenge, in that we toil in a principled, conscientious way against close-mindedness and the silencing of free debate.