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Friday, January 19, 2007
Education’s ‘Top Ten’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education released its annual “Top Ten Issues To Watch” report yesterday at the group’s first-ever conference for education journalists.
I don’t have to tell you that education policy can be a complex and sometimes confusing subject. So I attend as many of these seminars as I can to make sure I’m up on the latest trends and studies. There were so many interesting discussions yesterday, I could blog about it for weeks.
Among the issues the partnership thinks (and in some cases, hopes) will be hot on the radar of state policymakers this year: teacher quality, high school reform, school choice (charter schools, vouchers and tuition tax credits), achievement gaps, the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind, public school funding, college affordability and Pre-K.
Stephen Dolinger, the organization’s president, writes in the report’s introduction about the need to act on these issues now so that future generations may reap the benefits. I thought I’d leave you this morning with a question he raises: “In 2007, how will we answer when we are asked, how did we invest in our children’s future?”
