by Jeff Bryant | Dec 26, 2013 | Education
As 2013 closed out, the education world was roiled by yet another controversy over the calculation and interpretation of statistical data used to govern teachers and school services. This controversy, coming to us from the nation's capital, involved, according to the...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 18, 2013 | Education
The good news coming from the U.S. Department of Education recently is the effort to put tougher restrictions on for-profit scam colleges that rip off students, families and the taxpayers. The bad news is that not all Democrats are behind this effort and pushing for...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 11, 2013 | Education
"We have to fight for our children's education." Those words, from Philadelphia parent Kia Hinton, crystalized a national sentiment expressed during a Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education held on December 9 in over 100 sites across the country. The...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 4, 2013 | Education
This week's media extravaganza over the latest results from the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, were the latest distraction from what really matters for the nation's education policy. As Valerie Strauss put it on her blog at The Washington Post,...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 26, 2013 | Education
"Public education is under attack," comes the warning from Philadelphia in a riveting new video from community and youth organizers in that city. Their accusations are that education policies are "an attack on poor children" … policy makers "don't care about the...
