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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Kalman R. Hettleman
Baltimore City pre-K instructor Berol Dewdney, the 2022-2023 Maryland teacher of the year, works with her students. (Photo by Shannon Clark/Capital News Service)We liberals have failed to learn the lesson that more money isn’t enough for schoolchildren to succeed. We must pay equal attention to accountability for how efficiently and effectively the money is spent.
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1 month ago | 
marylandmatters.org | Kalman R. Hettleman |Steve Crane
Here’s an oddity. For all that has been said about the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, there has been hardly a word about class size. The subject has not even been debated. That’s a shocker. Common sense supports lower class sizes: The fewer the students in class, the more attention teachers can pay to individual student needs. Teachers almost unanimously think “smaller classes would strongly boost student learning.”So why the omission in the Blueprint?
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2 months ago | 
marylandmatters.org | Kalman R. Hettleman |Steve Crane
WARNING: This column may be hazardous to the comfort level of many readers. It’s easy to get lost in the bureaucratic weeds of the many agencies at the center of the world of Career and Technical Education (CTE), as I have in my research. Still, please give the column a try. We must struggle to understand the serious growing pains that threaten CTE’s success.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Kalman R. Hettleman
Career and technical education may be the most important part of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, writes Kalman Hettleman, but also the most-overlooked. (Photo by Senior Airman Nichelle Anderson/U.S. Air Force)WARNING: This column may be hazardous to the comfort level of many readers. It’s easy to get lost in the bureaucratic weeds of the many agencies at the center of the world of Career and Technical Education (CTE), as I have in my research. Still, please give the column a try.
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2 months ago | 
newsfromthestates.com | Kalman R. Hettleman
WARNING: This column may be hazardous to the comfort level of many readers. It’s easy to get lost in the bureaucratic weeds of the many agencies at the center of the world of Career and Technical Education (CTE), as I have in my research. Still, please give the column a try. We must struggle to understand the serious growing pains that threaten CTE’s success.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
marylandmatters.org | Kalman R. Hettleman |Steve Crane
Few, if any, school problems have been more in the national and Maryland spotlight than teacher shortages. When, most recently, Gov. Wes Moore (D) proposed slashing literally billions of dollars in school funding to bail out the state’s looming fiscal deficits, he claimed that the biggest cuts were harmless; the money couldn’t be spent, he said, because of teacher shortages. He’s right, shortages are severe, particularly for highly qualified teachers.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
marylandmatters.org | Kalman R. Hettleman |Steve Crane
With apologies to Hamlet: Is the U.S. Department of Education to be or not to be? That is the question, deeply controversial, about public education in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. Trump/MAGA want to trash the USDOE altogether. Yet, reason and experience show its elimination would be irrational and a severe blow to the future of our schoolchildren.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
marylandmatters.org | Kalman R. Hettleman |Steve Crane
This column may not be what you expected. Columnists thrive on controversy, but I found virtually no controversy about state Superintendent Carey Wright’s first year on the job. I searched hard, conducting over 20 interviews, but, to almost all, she’s off to a resounding start. Here’s a small sampling of what I was told.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
marylandmatters.org | Kalman R. Hettleman |Steve Crane
Public education in the U.S. is in dire danger. A staggering two-thirds of our students, disproportionately poor and of color, are not proficient in reading. The public is turned off because of years of empty promises and painfully little progress. In the face of this crisis, here’s what Kamala Harris and Donald Trump had to say about it in their far-reaching, ferocious debate last month: Not a word. Why their school absenteeism, despite the stark policy differences between them?
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
azdailysun.com | Kalman R. Hettleman
It’s good news that in May, NCAA and its power conferences agreed to pay college athletes over the next decade an estimated $2.8 billion from the megabucks that football and basketball teams generate. Athletes can give it the old college try while making a helluva lot of money. But here’s a much better idea: Abolish big-time college football and basketball altogether. kA 4=2DDlQAbQmp> x 56=FD:@?2=n r@==686 7@@E32== 2?5 32D<6E32== 244@F?E 7@C H6== @G6C S` 3:==:@? :?
