by Jeff Bryant | Nov 6, 2014 | Blog, Education
The anticipated role education was presumed to have in this week's midterm election generally did not pan out. Most analysts have concluded the election results derived from a wave of voter "discontent" mostly due to widespread economic dissatisfaction. Republican...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 31, 2014 | Blog, Education
Most folks in the Democratic Party have a problem with the Citizens United ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that permitted goo-gobs of corporate and private interest cash to be dumped onto our elections. The party's platform supports amending the Constitution to...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 23, 2014 | Blog, Education
When evidence emerged a month ago that education is the top “turnout message” for the Democratic Party in the upcoming election, some candidates may have chosen to act on that information. Indeed, Democratic-leaning activists have stepped up their ground game to make...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog, Education
Americans have become accustomed to seeing the figureheads of big-money interests distort reality to suit their needs and get a lot of well-meaning folks to agree with them in turn. Recall, if you will, as Jonathan Chait recently did in New York magazine, how Wall...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 7, 2014 | Education, Jobs and Growth
When Mary Grace Gainer anxiously told her master’s and doctoral advisors that she’d noticed want ads for college professors diminishing, they assured her, “Good people get good jobs.” So she focused on being very, very good. She earned straight A’s. She presented...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 2, 2014 | Blog, Education
When hundreds of high school students across a suburban school district outside of Denver, Colo. recently walked out of classes to protest a history curriculum, it quickly became national news. According to a local reporter, the students took to the streets multiple...
