by Jeff Bryant | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog, Education
[Today's guest post comes from Elaine Weiss, Executive Director, Broader Bolder Approach to Education] Signs continue to indicate momentum for a new emerging education policy narrative. The replacement of No Child Left Behind with the Every Student Succeeds Act is...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 11, 2016 | Blog, Education
What do Republicans have against school boards? That's a question to take away from a recent article in The Washington Post, in which education writer Lyndsey Layton reports that Republican governors and legislators in at least 11 states are in various stages of...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 4, 2016 | Blog, Education
The big news about education policy in the presidential race is that there is no news. As Laura Moser writes for Slate, “None of the candidates are talking about education. Like, at all.” At Salon, parent and public school activist Bertis Downs argues that even the...
by Mary Green Swig | Steven L. Swig | Roger Hickey | Feb 3, 2016 | Blog, Education
A growing movement is pressing for relief from this country’s oppressive and mounting burden of student debt. Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren addressed a gathering of millennials in Washington, organized by a group called Young Invincibles during a national day of...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Education
It's that time of year when National School Choice Week is staged by – well, we really don't know who – to elevate "education options," primarily charter schools and vouchers, for K-12 students. This year's NSCW apparently includes a record number of events around the...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 26, 2016 | Blog, Education
How should public schools and classroom teachers address a student population increasingly traumatized by the effects of chronic poverty? A majority of children attending the nation’s public schools now come from low-income families, according to a study released a...
