by Jeff Bryant | Mar 13, 2015 | Blog
Anyone who grew up in the 1960s, during the time of the Cold War, remembers our nation's response to the threat of nuclear war by enforcing "duck and cover" drills in our schools. The drill would start with the shrill whistle blast over the PA speaker at the front of...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 12, 2015 | Blog, Education
What fun we had recently with North Carolina's recently elected U.S. senator, Republican Thom Tillis, who insisted we didn't need government regulations to compel restaurant employees to wash their hands in between using the toilet and preparing our food. His solution...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 25, 2015 | Blog, Education
For sure, there is a lot for Democrats to dislike about the current version of No Child Left Behind federal education legislation steaming toward approval in the House of Representatives. The bill, The Student Success Act (H.R. 5), was written completely by...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 20, 2015 | Blog, Education
Is forcing every child to take annual standardized tests in reading and math a civil rights issue? That certainly seems to be one of the questions most in consideration in Washington, since deliberations began on how to rewrite the federal government's most...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog, Education
My colleague Bill Scher recently called our attention to an opinion piece by Thomas Edsall in The New York Times that revealed "the Republican appropriation of leftist populist rhetoric." Republicans "plan to bring the fight to the Democrats on their own turf,"...
