by Jeff Bryant | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog, Education
High school graduation season is in full bloom in many communities around the nation, but in some places, parents with children still in schools have to be worried about the conditions of the schools they'll return to in the fall – or even if the schools will open at...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, Education, Election 2016
Revelations from documents connected to Trump University are generating outrage across the political spectrum, from my colleague Terrance Heath, who called it "a scheme to transfer wealth from people who had little," to the conservative journal National Review, which...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 1, 2016 | Blog, Education
First Lady Michelle Obama is scheduled on Friday to provide a commencement address to the graduating class of 3,000 students at The City College of New York in Harlem. As the White House announcement states, her address has some additional historic significance in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 26, 2016 | Blog, Education
The false god of school vouchers has been unmasked once again, this time by a Brookings Institution study that says students in Louisiana and Indiana using vouchers to attend private and religious schools ended up doing worse on reading and math scores than their...
by Jeff Bryant | May 26, 2016 | Blog, Education
Last year a breakthrough policy brief from the National Education Policy Center exposed some of the financial machinations charter schools engage in to further the interests of profit-seeking entrepreneurs. But what about the political machinations? The politics of...
by Jeff Bryant | May 23, 2016 | Blog, Education
It didn't take long for conservatives to turn their attack on the rights of transgender students into an attack on another favorite target of theirs: public schools. In the pages of the conservative journal National Review, the latest screed declares, "The Obama...
