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9.13.09 - Periodically, public education is seized by a fad whether or not it has any real effect.  One such is the rush toward reducing class size to some arbitrary number.

David W. Kirkpatrick - 7.25.09
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Potential sources of reforming public education are the institutions of higher education.  After all, virtually all of the professionals in the K-12 system are products of higher education

David W. Kirkpatrick - 6.26.09
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Despite the lack of evidence that requiring public school educators to be certified results in qualified staff, the idea of decertifying them has not won the approval of the establishment, including teacher unions.

David W. Kirkpatrick - June 21, 2009
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Public school educators like to consider themselves to be professionals, rather than the publicly employed hired hands that they actually are.  Compare them with some of the generally recognized professions.

David W. Kirkpatrick - June 2, 2009
Columnist EducationNews.org

On June 1, 1925, 84 years ago today, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court handed down this decision which clearly established the right of parents to determine how their children would be educated. 

David W. Kirkpatrick
Columnist EducationNews.org
The National Education Association (NEA) was established in 1857, and the American Federation of Teachers in the be ginning of the 20rh century but neither evolved as a significant traditional labor union until the 1960s. Unfortunately, as that transition took place, they adopted some of the less attractive features of industrial unions.