by Jeff Bryant | Jul 13, 2015 | Blog, Education
For some years now, the term "The Village" has circulated throughout the Internet blogosphere as a shorthand description of the insular life of the Washington, D.C. policy makers and media mavens. As Heather "Digby" Parton explained in 2009, the term is a metaphor for...
by Richard Long | Jul 9, 2015 | Education
The drumbeat grows louder for candidates to issue a plan to tackle the $1.3 trillion behemoth that is student debt, with former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley issuing his debt-free college solution Wednesday. O’Malley’s proposal comes after Vermont Senator Bernie...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 6, 2015 | Blog, Education
It's Tuesday evening, and people have come to church — but not for religion. What's bringing people to Green Mountain United Methodist Church in the heart of Lakewood, Colorado, is a meeting modestly titled "Church and society: Stand up for students." In a cramped,...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 25, 2015 | Blog, Education
As the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, you can count on seeing a lot of glowing stories about the great education progress made in New Orleans since a natural disaster killed nearly 2,000 people, emptied a beloved city, and gave public school...
by Emily Foster | Jun 18, 2015 | Education
Colleges and universities depend on positive ratings from private accrediting organizations to not only attract students but to be eligible for the federal loans and grants those students receive. But too often, those ratings don’t reflect reality; top ratings go to...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Education
For years, there's been an agreement – a “Washington consensus” – among Beltway policy makers and political elites that America’s schools are in “crisis” and only a punitive program of standards, testing and accountability can remedy it. Both Republicans and Democrats...
