MIDDLEBURY When former President Barack Obama made universal pre-K education a national goal and a household term during his 2008 campaign for the White House, many of the state's educrats responded with an effort to adopt a one - size - fits - all... (suncommunitynews.com)
Educrats all over the country have begun to persuade federal education officials to grant waivers from NCLB, adopting the position that it is unfair to label schools as failing when the performance gaps between ethnic groups are so wide and when minority children lag so far behind their White, more affluent peers. (educationnext.org)
Certainly it's important to press the question of whether professional educrats, bureaucratic centralism, and a regulatory state erode parents» motivation to participate in their local schools. (educationnext.org)