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...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog, Education
Earlier this month, news about a U.S. Supreme Court case, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, raised concerns for progressives everywhere – and for good reason. As my colleague Dave Johnson writes, the case is about “making every state a ‘right-to-work’...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 14, 2016 | Blog, Education
When President Barack Obama recently made an impassioned plea to do something about the proliferation of gun violence in America, he drew upon the images of elementary school children gunned down in Newtown, Connecticut to engage our emotions. "First graders," he...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 7, 2016 | Blog, Education
In 2015 we witnessed historic changes in education. As education professor Sherman Dorn reviewed on his personal blog, there were at least 20 major news stories affecting the nation, including the passage of new federal legislation to replace No Child Left Behind, the...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog, Education
Charter schools are now the most rapidly growing form of schools in the nation's education system, but surveys show Americans generally don't understand what charters are even if they tend to favor them. Are these schools public? Are they private? Who really runs...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog, Education
For years, a lot of money, time, and energy have gone into a national campaign to discredit teachers unions by saying they protect bad teachers and do nothing to add value to our system of public education. Whole organizations have been created to advance this...
