Paradoxical Educational Rhetoric: The Contradictory Thoughts of Nicholas D. Kristof and President Obama

Education is important. Good teachers matter. And bad teachers need to be fired. All simplistic and true, but all equally untrue in their complexity

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When Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh Couldn't Save Catholic Schools

Updated on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 1:49PM by Patrick Edmonds

With so rich an irony that the Catholic Church can only create, I present a new “We Three Kings” Songs called “Where the Hell are the Three Kings?”.

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Neglecting Society's Vulnerable: The Curfew, Closed Pools and 4 Day School Week Continue America’s Blame Game

By closing the pools and summer programs, blaming all city children with a punishment of curfew, and by eliminating a day of school a week, we are essentially removing the ladder needed for our most vulnerable children to reach the American dream.

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Step 3: A European Model- Why Not Here?

The answer... to match something similar to a European model... The end result of such an overhaul would be to fulfill a more beneficial goal and provide numerous opportunities rather than a single opportunity.

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Step 1: Early Childhood Education- The Sooner The Better

Updated on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 9:51PM by Patrick Edmonds

Imagine the redirection of public education if instead of waiting until the permanent damage has been done as the result of six years of a dysfunctional environment, the system stepped in sooner and began teaching at arguably the most important of stages.

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The American Education System- We Came, We Taught, We Failed…But How We Can Still Succeed

To argue that public schools themselves have failed is too short-sighted and reflects no critical thought, something essential if we are to have any hope of saving this most valuable of institutions.

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State of my Opinion

Photo by Chuck Kennedy

How I wish the State of The Union speech really went:

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Does Anyone Have a Pen and Paper?

The article’s anti-technology and anti-green sentiments are refreshing but also idiotic. The art of penmanship has gone out the same door as the art of education.

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What Makes a Country Great?

The country we often sentimentally call the greatest is actually ranked 11th. Not bad, but not the greatest.

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Part Five in a Series of Five: An Educational Deficit and VIP Lists- What Illionois and Chicago's Schools Mean for American Education

However, in this year of program cuts, increased class sizes, greater state and federal oversight, and teacher layoffs in amounts unseen in the last forty years, teachers, parents, politicians, and entire communities cannot afford to saunter aimlessly into summer because education in America is at a severe turning point, one that could spell disaster for generations to come.

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