by Jeff Bryant | Apr 10, 2014 | Blog, Education
It's testing season in America, and regardless of how the students do, it's clear who is already flunking the exams. Last week in New York, new standardized tests began rolling out across the state, and tens of thousands of families said "no dice." According to local...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 3, 2014 | Blog, Education
"Democrats Scramble to Stave Off Midterm Disaster" was the headline in The New York Times article this week reporting on "the problem" the party has with turning out its base in the upcoming midterm election. As the reporter explained, "Young voters have abandoned the...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 27, 2014 | Blog, Education
America was shocked, shocked, by new data from the U.S. Department of Education last week showing that a child's education destiny in the nation's public schools is strongly determined by race. As a report in The New York Times put it, the new data revealed that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 24, 2014 | Education
An article posted on Politico today adds new evidence of the damage being done to K-12 education under the guise of "school choice," and how much many of us are paying to place some of our own core values under attack: about $1 billion across 14 states with school...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 20, 2014 | Education
For people who like to think of themselves as being "exceptional," Americans can sometimes abandon the very principles their exceptionality is founded on. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the current debate of education policy. A feature that has long made...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 19, 2014 | Education
Social progress is never a straightforward, linear process. Sometimes society struggles to recognize moral questions that in retrospect should have seemed obvious. Then, in a historical moment, something crystallizes. Slavery, civil rights, women’s rights, marriage...
