by Jeff Bryant | Mar 12, 2014 | Education
It was Monday morning, and the folks at MSNBC's "Morning Joe" were already steamed. Joe Scarborough had his Very Serious scowl face on while Mika Brzezinski's eyes were flashing with poised rage. Their target: newly elected New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who had...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 6, 2014 | Education
What happens when people feel they aren't being listened to? They raise their voices louder. For some time now, teachers, parents and students have spoken out against the extraordinary emphasis on standardized testing that has become the bedrock of the nation's...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 27, 2014 | Education
When President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union address, called for a "year of action," he probably didn't have this in mind. An extensive and diverse coalition of forces opposed to the education policies pushed by his administration, and many state governors,...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 20, 2014 | Education
Last week, NBC News reported about a school near St. Louis that conducted an "active shooter drill" in which campus law officers and teachers instruct high schoolers on what to do “when you get shot." "'Close your fingers and keep ‘em in,'” they were told, because,...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 12, 2014 | Education
Legend has, political disputes are supposed to be resolvable only when parties "meet in the middle" and shake hands on points of agreement that are possible. But in the much-contested issue of "education reform," only one of the disputing parties in the debate tends...
