by Jeff Bryant | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog, Education
My colleague Bill Scher recently called our attention to an opinion piece by Thomas Edsall in The New York Times that revealed "the Republican appropriation of leftist populist rhetoric." Republicans "plan to bring the fight to the Democrats on their own turf,"...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 5, 2015 | Blog, Education
[From the Education Opportunity Network. Subscribe here.] Don't get too excited yet, but there are signs we may have finally turned a corner for the better in the war for public school financing. Recently, government officials and politicians – from the Beltway to the...
by Meghan Byrd | Jan 30, 2015 | Education
The Super Bowl, the Big Game, whatever you call it, the biggest event in American sports will take place this Sunday evening at the University of Phoenix Stadium, home of the famous… wait, what’s that? The University of Phoenix doesn’t have athletic teams, you say?...
by Mary Green Swig | Steven L. Swig | Richard Eskow | Jan 27, 2015 | Blog, Education
MaryGreenSwig Steven L.Swig RichardEskow President Obama's proposal for tuition-free community college education, and the broader discussion that it has inspired, confirms our belief that it is time for a comprehensive solution to a $1.3 trillion problem: student debt...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 23, 2015 | Blog, Education
A curious thing happened this week on Capital Hill: A politician said something about education that made sense. The "something" didn't come from President Obama. In the president's annual State of the Union address, "K-12 policy largely took a back seat," Education...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 16, 2015 | Blog, Education
Here's how ridiculous the nation's obsession with standardized testing has gotten: Last week Education Week reporter Catherine Gewertz came across a news item about a school in Florida that "forbid the flushing of toilets during testing … to cut down on the...
