Universal Health Care: The First Step to Education Reform

Healthy children learn. Unhealthy children do not. Therefore,

Before tackling any other education issue, the Obama administration and Congress should enact a plan that ensures adequate and comprehensive universal health care.

Theses on the Cathedral Door

Cathedral doors once served as bulletin boards. Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the doors of the Wittenberg church as a catalyst for debate. This is how I'd like to think of this blog, as a "door" on which to post brief theses about public education. I don't intend to go to great lengths to argue for or against the statements in the initial post for each topic. Expansion and clarification of the positions will come through dialogue. Ready? Here's the first:

There will be no true reform of American public education until the grade level system is discarded and every child has an IEP (individual education plan).