Voices

Educators, community members and students share their opinions about Idaho education.

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Idaho can learn from New York school

Idaho Leads co-directors Lisa Kinnaman and Roger Quarles personally observed deeply committed school leaders and teachers use the most innovative education practices they’ve ever seen that have resulted in extreme growth in student achievement.

The silent truths of Common Core

Under the new standards, Idaho will no longer have direct control over education in our state, nor will the districts, the schools, the teachers or the parents.

Empower students and improve education

Education is ripe for change, but for that to happen we need to get fired up. We need tables turned over.

Idaho will lose control with standards

Common Core isn’t about education. It’s about giving up school curriculum and testing rights to the federal government and to anonymous private entities, and it was about control from some education reform groups who admit the goal is to create a national market place for educational products and services.

Crapo: An ‘alarming’ shift in Common Core

The Obama administration’s steps to push Common Core standards “are alarming and may present a dangerous path toward a federal takeover of state standards,” Sen. Mike Crapo writes in a guest opinion.

TFA techniques are not best practices

Conflicts of interest abound when education corporations like Teach For America get involved in the “business” of education.”

Ask one question: Will this help kids?

A trustee, mother and grandmother from North Idaho shares her perspective. She wants the finger-pointing to stop, and wants collaboration to start.

Celebrate Employee Freedom Week

NEFW (June 23-29) highlights how unionized teachers and other employees often don’t know that they have the legal right to opt-out of union membership. Empower educators to select an association that best matches their budget and beliefs.