by Jeff Bryant | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog, Education
For-profit colleges and universities have a well-deserved reputation for deceptive recruiting, low-quality programs, and sky-high prices. Now you can add union suppression to that reputation. A branch of the for-profit college mega-provider Kaplan University has...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 29, 2012 | Blog, Education
Coming in over the transom this week, the ever-vigilant bloggers at Education Week's Politics K-12 who were camped out at hearings for the House Education and the Workforce Committee tweeted out that Rep. Judy Biggert from Illinois, "a moderate Republican," is...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 19, 2012 | Blog, Education
Last week in Florida there was an important victory for progressive Democrats that not many Democrats know about. Even worse, most Democrats may not even be aware why this was a victory. The important win was generated by a coalition of parent groups, schoolteachers,...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 2, 2012 | Blog, Education
This week the US House of Representatives, with bipartisan support, passed a bill, H.R. 2117, with the misleading title of The Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act. The title is misleading because the bill has absolutely nothing to do with "protecting...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 17, 2012 | Blog, Education
Conventional wisdom among the Very Serious People in Washington DC has long maintained that the severely punitive nature of current policies governing America's public schools cannot be called an "attack" on those institutions or the teachers who inhabit them. We're...
