Common Core Standards are an attempt to put the same education content in classrooms all across America. Stop at that sentence and do not take the argument any further, and there is already plenty of reason Alabama should reject them. Do I think Common Core Standards ar...

“Rumors and Rumblings” is a weekly feature that runs each Wednesday. It includes short nuggets of information that we glean from conversations throughout the week. Have a tip? Send it here. All sources remain confidential. 1. Movement on Common Core When the...

This week’s “Rumors & Rumblings” are coming to you a day late because we were digging around for a little more info on a couple of rumors. Have a tip? Send it here. 1. The Mobile Bay area is buzzing with the idea of Republican State Representative ...

This week Yellowhammer will have a series of five articles that take a look back at the 2012 regular session. “AEA Still a Threat” is article #1 in our “Session in Review” series. The 2012 has been a year of ups and downs for the Alabama Educatio...

MONTGOMERY – The Alabama Senate today passed significant education reform legislation known as the Education Options Act of 2012. The proposal, Senate Bill 513 sponsored by Senator Dick Brewbaker (R-Pike Road), includes three major components aimed at turning around und...

Education reform is rivaled only by entitlement reform when it comes to the level of demagoguery that defenders of the status quo are willing to engage in. Any hint of reform is met with fierce opposition. When U.S. House Republicans suggest the federal government live ...

On Tuesday in the House Ways and Means Education Committee, Rep. Phil Williams presented a substitute bill amending House Bill 541, the Education Options Act. It contains several adjustments to the original bill, some substantive and some merely technical. I’ve li...

No! In the short video below, Davis Guggenheim, director of the critically acclaimed documentary Waiting for Superman, talks about charter schools and how the charter school revolution STARTED with teachers....

By: Brooklyn Roberts Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. By that definition, our current system of education is the epitome of insanity. We all speak of wanting to improve education, but we keep d...