by Jeff Bryant | Aug 31, 2015 | Blog, Education, Health
I don’t think anyone who read “Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools” by Jonathan Kozol would easily forget it. It took me, a child of the leafy suburbs of affluent North Dallas, to a place that was unimaginably cruel and dehumanizing, where schools go...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 27, 2015 | Blog, Education
The big annual poll on how Americans view public schools and education policy is out, and anyone eager to don the mantle of "education reform" might want to rethink their wardrobe. As education journalist Valerie Strauss reports the news from her blog at The...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 25, 2015 | Blog, Education
Progressive Democrats are right to hail the new populism in their party driving the debate about the nation’s economic policies and the atrocious inequality those policies have created. Heartened by the bold leadership of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and the...
by Richard Kirsch | Aug 20, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Education
Metropolis, Illinois, population 6,465, isn’t much of a metropolis. But when Reverend Orlando McReynolds moved to that small town on the Kentucky border two years ago to become the pastor at the First Missionary Life Center, he found the same thing he left behind in...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 13, 2015 | Blog, Education
Some Very Serious People have decided Governor John Kasich of Ohio is the latest personality to emerge from the field of presidential candidates in the Republican Party to warrant genuine, bona fide consideration. According to a roundup of political pundits and...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 11, 2015 | Blog, Education
When people begin a story about how to fix America, they often start with education, and they often start in communities like Liberty City, Fla. Liberty City lies to the west of Miami Beach, across the Biscayne Bay and away from the sun-washed beaches and sparkling...
