The Peoria (AZ) Unified School District board is working on a dress code for teachers. It would specify appropriate footwear and even addres...

Gov. Jan Brewer has appointed Craig Barrett, one-time president of Intel Corporation—a dominant Arizona presence—to the chairmanship of the ...

2012 Gene V Glass The Brown Center for Education Policy of the Brookings Institution released a report just a couple days a...

Colorado House Bill 12-1124 was approved by a vote of 13-0 on February 13th. If it becomes law it will require the Colorado Department of E...

Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ)—of finger-wagging-in-the-face-of-the-President fame—filled a vacancy on the AZ Board of Regents in a not unexpect...

The following post appeared as an op-ed piece in the Des Moines Register on Februray 12th: The cyberschool movement is spreading across t...

I'm on a flight from Phoenix to Denver, capitals of the two places referred to in the name of this blog. The contrast is amazing; surfac...

It's the nutty season as Arizona legislators fashion bills that pander to the small mindedness of their constituents. Bill 15-108 provi...

It was announced today by the Obama Administration that Colorado is among ten states exempted from the most onerous requirements of No Child...

Henry Giroux has just posted a brilliant article—quite long and definitely worth the read—entitled "Book Burning in Arizona." It ...