by Jeff Bryant | Aug 15, 2014 | Blog, Education
If you've ever spent much time watching soap operas, you're familiar with this scenario: Two characters with furrowed brows, arms akimbo square off: "That's not true," says one. "Oh yes it is," says the other. "If only Brock were here …" as the camera pans right....
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog, Education, Winning Issues for 2014
A common admonition progressives have gotten used to hearing over the years is to support more conservative Democratic candidates because "Republicans are worse." This admonition makes some sense in electoral politics, when, in most cases, progressives face a ballot...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 31, 2014 | Blog, Education
Anyone who saw the remarkable HBO series "The Wire" remembers the scene in the fourth season, focused on Baltimore public schools, where the term "juking the stats" defined how corporate-driven re-engineering of the public sphere has distorted institutions so they no...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 25, 2014 | Blog, Education
Every year Netroots Nation is arguably the most important annual event in the progressive community and a telling barometer of what is on the minds of, as Howard Dean put it, "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party." Last week's meeting was no exception....
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 17, 2014 | Blog, Education
Who could ever forget comedian Jon Stewart's commentary in early 2009 on how financial reporters totally botched reporting of the Great Recession. Stewart mocked journalists at CNBC for missing all the warning signs of the overvalued housing market and their failure...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 9, 2014 | Blog, Education, Winning Issues for 2014
Political pundits who try to tamp down talk of divisions within the Democratic Party must not be paying any attention to education policy. For quite some time, close observers of the nation's education policy have been calling attention to the fault lines between...
