by Jeff Bryant | Apr 23, 2015 | Blog, Education
The movement to boycott standardized testing has caught the media totally by surprise. The mostly parent-led effort that started with Facebook pages and neighborhood meetings has grown into a firestorm of resistance. As the Associated Press reported this week, "This...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 23, 2015 | Blog, Education
No one likes a cheater. So you’d think plenty of people would be pleased to hear that educators in Atlanta, on trial for cheating on standardized tests, were found guilty of those charges and sentenced “harshly,” according to the New York Times. As CNN reports, of the...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 21, 2015 | Blog, Education
Politicians from across the political spectrum have made public schools and schoolteachers the favored whipping post of the day. In blue state New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vowed to “bust up” public education “monopolies” and has bullied through new laws that...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 20, 2015 | Blog, Education
Confirming what a recent reporter for Reuters claimed, “the ‘do-nothing’ US Congress may actually be starting to do things.” The report hails passage of “bipartisan initiatives” such as the fix to physician reimbursement in Medicare and the demand that Congress have a...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 9, 2015 | Blog, Education, Populism2015, Progressive Vision
Is there really "a populist energy building in America, and beginning to drive the debate in the Democratic Party," as my colleague Robert Borosage recently wrote? If your inclination is to answer that question, "Yes," the evidence you're most apt to cite is the...
