by Jeff Bryant | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog, Education
Charter schools are now the most rapidly growing form of schools in the nation's education system, but surveys show Americans generally don't understand what charters are even if they tend to favor them. Are these schools public? Are they private? Who really runs...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog, Education
For years, a lot of money, time, and energy have gone into a national campaign to discredit teachers unions by saying they protect bad teachers and do nothing to add value to our system of public education. Whole organizations have been created to advance this...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 3, 2015 | Blog
On Wednesday afternoon, the House overwhelmingly passed the proposed Every Student Succeeds Act by 359 to 64. The Senate is expected to vote on the measure this month, and the White House has signaled President Obama's willingness to sign it. As is true with any time...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 25, 2015 | Blog, Education
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently shook up the education policy world when she challenged one of the pillars of the education establishment for the last 10 to 15 years, that teachers' job evaluations and pay should be linked to how students –...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 19, 2015 | Blog, Education
How can someone make a decision about a school they've never even walked into?" That question is at the heart of Kristina Rizga's terrific new book "Mission High: One school, how experts tried to fail it, and the students and teachers who made it triumph." Rizga uses...
