by Jeff Bryant | Jun 15, 2015 | Blog, Education
Making public education more accountable has been the solemn pledge of government officials for years, including the Obama administration and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Yet that same level of accountability doesn't seem to apply to the fastest growing sector...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 11, 2015 | Blog, Education
If you want to see how far off track the nation’s current education policies have gotten, just look at what is going on in Oregon. As an Oregon news outlet recently reported, the Oregon House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would “inform parents twice a year of...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 4, 2015 | Blog, Education
While it's refreshing to see K-12 education become a prominent issue in the very early stages of the 2016 election campaigns, it's unfortunate to see support for the Common Core – the contentious new standards adopted by most states – become the focus of the debate....
by Jeff Bryant | May 28, 2015 | Blog, Education
For years, the progressive punchlist of issues has neglected education policy. Back in the 2012 election, education was mostly a no-show in presidential debates, and very few candidates were standard bearers for public schools, leaving these issues primarily to ballot...
by Jeff Bryant | May 21, 2015 | Blog, Education
The disturbing death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore while in police custody, and the ensuing riots after news of his death spread, have continued to prompt countless analyses of the chronic problems in our nation’s urban centers. My colleague Terrance Heath correctly...
