by Joshua Holland | Mar 17, 2014 | Economy, Education
Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) kicked off a new campaign called “Higher Ed, Not Debt” to tackle the nation’s staggering burden of student loan debt. The campaign will be fought by a broad coalition of unions and progressive groups including the Working...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 12, 2014 | Education
It was Monday morning, and the folks at MSNBC's "Morning Joe" were already steamed. Joe Scarborough had his Very Serious scowl face on while Mika Brzezinski's eyes were flashing with poised rage. Their target: newly elected New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who had...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 12, 2014 | Education
We recently interviewed Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, on "The Zero Hour" on the school crisis currently taking place in Newark, N.J. The Newark story is part of a larger pattern in which Republican governors override local...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 6, 2014 | Education
What happens when people feel they aren't being listened to? They raise their voices louder. For some time now, teachers, parents and students have spoken out against the extraordinary emphasis on standardized testing that has become the bedrock of the nation's...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 27, 2014 | Education
A collaboration between the group In the Public Interest and the American Federation of Teachers offers progressive education activists a new resource for pushing back against efforts to turn public schools into private profit centers. The "Cashing In On Kids" website...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 27, 2014 | Education
When President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union address, called for a "year of action," he probably didn't have this in mind. An extensive and diverse coalition of forces opposed to the education policies pushed by his administration, and many state governors,...
