by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 13, 2011 | Blog
The House is poised to vote on legislation that would increase federal support for charter schools and would encourage states to authorize new charter schools. The "Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act" represents the latest triumph of ideology over...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 13, 2011 | Blog, Education
If aliens from another planet landed in the U.S. this weekend they would likely assume that the people inhabiting this place are completely obsessed with one thing and one thing only: money. Unless of course if they landed at the Save Our Schools March that happened...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 13, 2011 | Blog, Education
So much for the "New Washington Consensus on Education". Education policy, we were told by conservative leaders merely six months ago, was a " redeeming feature" of the Obama administration that would provide DC policy makers with a tranquil eddy amidst the whitewater...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 13, 2011 | Blog, Education
Much in the same way that September ushers in a new football season every year regaled by a bombast of armchair quarterbacks analyzing "the game," the month also brings on yet another Back to School Season with a chorus of commentators declaring their prescriptions to...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 12, 2011 | Blog
We buy a lot from China, and they don't buy much from us. Some call that "trade." The result is that our jobs, factories, companies, industries and wealth are moving to China. One very big thing we can do about this right now is to confront China over their currency...
by Bill Scher | Oct 12, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Yesterday, an unanimous Senate Republican caucus didn't just lead a filibuster to kill the American Jobs Act. The Republicans stopped the Senate from even beginning to have a discussion about doing anything at all to create jobs. Typically, a filibuster happens after...
