The paper's education reporter Sam Dillon again worries about the "hodgepodge" that results when states, as opposed to the federal government, control what's taught in schools: "The United States ...
A front-page story by Sam Dillon pushes uniform standards for pubilc schools nationwide, and buries the ideological edge of the issue: Conservative opposition.
Even Barack Obama agrees with a Rhode Island school board that fired all its teachers, but the Times fires a warning shot from the left: "Officials at the two unions, the National Education ...
Sam Dillon reports on "classrooms cheering" on President Obama's nationally broadcast address to schoolchildren, dismisses the "conservative firestorm" as paranoid and scrapes up anecdotal ...
Education reporter Sam Dillon only talks to liberals who argue that massive pre-school spending by the federal government would be a wise investment: "...experts are debating how best to improve ...
Guilt by association: "Tuscaloosa, where George Wallace once stood defiantly in the schoolhouse door to keep blacks out of the University of Alabama...."
