by Jeff Bryant | Jul 13, 2015 | Blog, Education
For some years now, the term "The Village" has circulated throughout the Internet blogosphere as a shorthand description of the insular life of the Washington, D.C. policy makers and media mavens. As Heather "Digby" Parton explained in 2009, the term is a metaphor for...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 10, 2015 | Blog
Nearly two years ago, a North Carolina classroom teacher wrote to her state legislature that her salary of $31,000 "is wholly insufficient to support my family. So insufficient, in fact, that my children qualify for and use Medicaid as their medical insurance, and...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 6, 2015 | Blog, Education
It's Tuesday evening, and people have come to church — but not for religion. What's bringing people to Green Mountain United Methodist Church in the heart of Lakewood, Colorado, is a meeting modestly titled "Church and society: Stand up for students." In a cramped,...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 25, 2015 | Blog, Education
As the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, you can count on seeing a lot of glowing stories about the great education progress made in New Orleans since a natural disaster killed nearly 2,000 people, emptied a beloved city, and gave public school...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Education
For years, there's been an agreement – a “Washington consensus” – among Beltway policy makers and political elites that America’s schools are in “crisis” and only a punitive program of standards, testing and accountability can remedy it. Both Republicans and Democrats...
