Education reform News

Recently, four teachers sat down with president Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for lunch at the White House. They did not tell these men what they needed to hear.

The Zindagi Trust was founded by Shehzad Roy, a famous Pakistani musician, in 2002 with the vision to promote the reform of the horrendous conditions of Government schools in his native country.

If the reform administration of Dr. Terry Grier, hired this past school year to run the Houston Independent School District (HISD), is to be measured by the number of students taking Advanced Placement (AP) exams, this year's results indicate progress.

This article analyzes what has happened to American education since the influential warning of 1983 entitled ''A Nation At Risk'' which warned Americans about public education's mediocrity.