by Jeff Bryant | Nov 25, 2015 | Blog, Education
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently shook up the education policy world when she challenged one of the pillars of the education establishment for the last 10 to 15 years, that teachers' job evaluations and pay should be linked to how students –...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 19, 2015 | Blog, Education
How can someone make a decision about a school they've never even walked into?" That question is at the heart of Kristina Rizga's terrific new book "Mission High: One school, how experts tried to fail it, and the students and teachers who made it triumph." Rizga uses...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 17, 2015 | Education
[fve]https://youtu.be/ln166j3fTjM[/fve] Advocates for charter schools frequently argue that generalizing about these schools is unfair because charters, by their very entrepreneurial, unregulated design, are not all the same. This is true. Charter schools are not all...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog, Education
Although many Democrats are disappointed, even in a “panic,” with the results from recent off-year elections, they need to be aware of where progressives won and learn from communities that bucked the influences of big money, especially in contests where education was...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 12, 2015 | Blog, Education
The "big economic fight" in the Democratic Party that news outlets are reporting isn't confined to economics. The link above takes you to a story in the Washington Post explaining how a "populist wing" in the Democratic Party is rebelling against the conventional...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 6, 2015 | Blog, Education
The weather is turning colder for sure, but spring is in the air for those who believe there is an urgent need to change the nation's federal education law known as No Child Left Behind. Seasoned education journalist Alyson Klein at Education Week believes recent...
