Articles By Author Robert Holland
Articles by Robert Holland
03/10/2010 12:00 AM
When various legislatures and education officials were considering applications for a slice of the federal Race to the Top fund, U.S. Secretary of Education ...(read more)
03/05/2010 12:00 AM
Seclusion and restraint of disabled students can sometimes go to ugly extremes—but more national control over private schools is no way to prevent ...(read more)
02/19/2010 12:00 AM
Given President Obama's pledge to support what works in education without regard to political ideology, he surely will seize upon the latest evidence of ...(read more)
02/03/2010 12:00 AM
Yes, it is good that Massachusetts’ top education officials expressed reservations about the quality of national curriculum standards being developed ...(read more)
01/22/2010 12:00 AM
Alongside the attempted federalization of health care in Washington, with details being hashed out behind closed doors, a parallel bid to nationalize K-12 ...(read more)
01/10/2010 12:00 AM
It is good to see that Missouri policymakers are considering revising the law that limits the state's charter schools to St. Louis and Kansas City. ("Additional ...(read more)
12/15/2009 12:00 AM
Regarding the op-ed column “Improve requirements for teacher preparation” (Nov. 24) by Teresa Lubbers, commissioner of the Indiana Commission ...(read more)
11/29/2009 12:00 AM
According to your Nov. 22 editorial, the head of Iowa's largest teacher union opposes using students' scores on standardized tests to evaluate the work ...(read more)
11/19/2009 12:00 AM
President Obama's "Race to the Top" grant competition for public school systems has only recently released its guidelines, but already it appears ...(read more)
10/19/2009 12:00 AM
Unfortunately, Utah educrats are not alone in using the economic downturn as an excuse to target parental choice. In several states, bureaucrats have sought ...(read more)
09/19/2009 12:00 AM
Your article on home schooling asserts that Alaska is alone among the states in allowing parents to home-school their children without notifying governmental ...(read more)
09/15/2009 12:00 AM
Honesty and common sense, thy names are Bill Cosby. Not many celebrities who had come to Detroit for a back-to-school promotion would have answered "no" ...(read more)
09/09/2009 12:00 AM
President Obama’s lunchtime back-to-school speech Tuesday used the first person pronoun “I” more than 50 times.Perhaps talking about his ...(read more)
09/03/2009 12:00 AM
The conservative blogosphere is alive with angry calls for parents to keep their children home September 8 in protest of President Barack Obama’s ...(read more)
08/04/2009 12:00 AM
Washington, D.C. is about as politically liberal a city as there is anywhere in the United States. President Barack Obama rolled up a 93 percent landslide ...(read more)
07/18/2009 12:00 AM
Stated as a mission for all of public education, the words of former Caterpillar Inc. Chairman Glen Barton could be highly controversial ("Peoria Charter ...(read more)
02/02/2009 12:00 AM
A genuine teach-in can be a positive educational force if its organizers invite students to think freely about serious issues after pondering all relevant ...(read more)
02/01/2009 12:00 AM
Egged on by teacher unions and even school board associations, U.S. public school systems have acquired a reputation for being resistant to change. When ...(read more)
12/01/2008 12:00 AM
A coalition of environmental advocacy groups is pushing for the implementation of a federally financed environmentalist agenda in the curricula of all public ...(read more)
11/05/2008 12:00 AM
“I admire charter schools, but I don’t support vouchers. They kill the public school system,” asserted candidate Jim Himes during ...(read more)
10/24/2008 12:00 AM
It can be a good thing when public authorities turn their back on fads and fashions in education. Examples of everything from invented spelling to fuzzy ...(read more)
10/23/2008 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
Your news article showed in a vivid, personal way how Rhode Island’s new tax-credit scholarship program can help needy children find ...(read more)
10/13/2008 12:00 AM
Dear Editor:
You draw reassurance from the two major-party Presidential candidates' agreeing on a handful of education issues, such as the need to recruit ...(read more)
10/10/2008 12:00 AM
If there is any urgency about raising student achievement in the nation’s big cities (and there should be), it is utterly absurd that a public-school ...(read more)
10/09/2008 12:00 AM
Dear Editor:
In your Sept. 30 anti-school-choice editorial, you ask why anyone would want to “take money away” from public schools that are ...(read more)
