by Jeff Bryant | Jun 15, 2015 | Blog, Education
Making public education more accountable has been the solemn pledge of government officials for years, including the Obama administration and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Yet that same level of accountability doesn't seem to apply to the fastest growing sector...
by Emily Foster | Jun 12, 2015 | Education
In an interview with Capital & Main published today, former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls for free higher public education and debt-free college. “I think we’ve got to move to a system of free higher education,” said Reich. Reich includes the idea of...
by Bernie Horn | Jun 12, 2015 | Blog, Education
Last week, a very distinguished panel convened by the National Research Council published an Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia. The report is 341 pages long and cost millions of dollars to produce. What’s most impressive about this...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 11, 2015 | Blog, Education
If you want to see how far off track the nation’s current education policies have gotten, just look at what is going on in Oregon. As an Oregon news outlet recently reported, the Oregon House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would “inform parents twice a year of...
by Emily Foster | Jun 10, 2015 | Education
[fve]https://vimeo.com/130400133[/fve] More than 400,000 signatures in support of a congressional resolution calling for debt-free college were delivered to Congress today by a coalition of organizations that included the Campaign for America's Future. Those who...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 9, 2015 | Education
In a step forward for the student debt movement, the Obama administration late Monday announced a process for “debt relief” for students who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges. The announcement marks an end to a four-year investigation that has already...
