by Jeff Bryant | Sep 10, 2013 | Education
Last week brought the spectacle of one of America's more prominent conservative Republican governors haranguing the nation's first black president for setting "the fight for civil rights back for decades." Then, one of the conservative movement's leading opinion...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 5, 2013 | Education
There are undoubtedly wonderful charter schools in existence, and Americans generally have a favorable opinion of charters, but hardly a week goes by without news of a scandal or a study tarnishing their image. With schools reopening everywhere across the country, the...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 21, 2013 | Education
Philadelphia, the place where the Declaration of Independence was signed and the Constitution was written, and the site of the oldest residential street in the United States, has become the site where the nation's drift away from its founding ideals is most acutely...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 13, 2013 | Education
I have this recurring nightmare – one that, I fear, is about to become reality for most of America's school children. In my dream, I'm back in elementary school. It's testing day and I'm struggling to remember my locker combination and get to class on time. My...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 6, 2013 | Education
Last week's midair disintegration of a high-flying apparatchik in the movement known as education "reform" is still making headlines in local press and the national media. Tony Bennett was a hero of the national movement bent on reshaping public education along the...
