Category: Education
St. Louis School Lessons
A news story with national significance about public schools has been unfolding in St. Louis, Missouri, thanks to the work of independent investigators. Twenty years of expensive court-ordered…
Education Reporter — March 1992
America 2000 is Heading Us into a National School System
Education has emerged as a national issue in a very short historical tine-frame. that speed in itself is newsworthy; the U.S. Department of Education only dates from the…
Education Reporter — February 1992
Are U.S. Workers Really Illiterate?
It took the Japanese Speaker of the House to say out loud what American politicians are afraid to say: 30 percent of U.S. workers “cannot even read, so…
Illiteracy, Psychotherapy, and Self-Esteem — February 1992
What’s Wrong with Public Schools?
As the lyrics in a favorite song go, “Everything’s up to date in Kansas City. They’ve gone about as far as they can go.” Indeed, spending on Kansas…