by Jeff Bryant | Jan 12, 2018 | Blog
Two news stories that recently went viral tell an important story about America today and the nation's misbegotten values. The first image comes from Baltimore, Maryland, where students and teachers recently had to wear coats, gloves, and blankets in classrooms...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 9, 2018 | Blog
The big surprise at the end of 2017 is that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been arguably worse for higher education than she has been for K-12, which is not what most experts predicted when she took the job. While protestors have dogged DeVos across the...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 20, 2017 | Blog
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos insists her lifelong support for school vouchers and other forms of school privatization will not lead the Trump administration to "mandate" these "school choice" policies. Nonetheless, her Republican friends in Congress have just...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 19, 2017 | Blog
It now looks like the Trump administration's repeal of Obama-era guidelines allowing transgender students to use the school bathroom of their preference was just the beginning of a long list of regulatory reversals including efforts to ensure school discipline...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 15, 2017 | Blog
A controversial rewrite of the Higher Education Act that just passed out of committee in the House of Representatives in a strict party-line vote will likely reboot floundering for-profit colleges and revive the scandals associated with this industry should it clear...
