by Jeff Bryant | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog, Education
Americans have become accustomed to seeing the figureheads of big-money interests distort reality to suit their needs and get a lot of well-meaning folks to agree with them in turn. Recall, if you will, as Jonathan Chait recently did in New York magazine, how Wall...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 2, 2014 | Blog, Education
When hundreds of high school students across a suburban school district outside of Denver, Colo. recently walked out of classes to protest a history curriculum, it quickly became national news. According to a local reporter, the students took to the streets multiple...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 25, 2014 | Blog, Education, Winning Issues for 2014
Is it possible that education is the issue that will determine whether results of the upcoming election swing the United States Senate to Republican Party control? Will there be a dramatic change in party control of state governors' offices because of how candidates...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 18, 2014 | Blog, Education
Since "The Wizard of Oz," the term "we're not in Kansas anymore" has been shorthand for saying we've changed the usual surroundings for a new, disorienting terrain. For school children who actually live in Kansas, that would likely be a relief. Since the nation's...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 12, 2014 | Blog, Education
What's wrong with this picture? During the nation's back-to-school season, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been touring states in a bus to "highlight the champions of reform." At one stop, where he spoke to an audience of parents at a Nashville, Tenn.,...
