by Jeff Bryant | Dec 4, 2013 | Education
This week's media extravaganza over the latest results from the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, were the latest distraction from what really matters for the nation's education policy. As Valerie Strauss put it on her blog at The Washington Post,...
by Joshua Holland | Dec 3, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Education
How ‘Limited Government’ Is Burying a Generation in Debt (via Moyers & Company) The cost of tuition in this country has increased at an almost unbelievable pace over the past generation – twice as fast than as the costs of health care. According to an...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 26, 2013 | Education
"Public education is under attack," comes the warning from Philadelphia in a riveting new video from community and youth organizers in that city. Their accusations are that education policies are "an attack on poor children" … policy makers "don't care about the...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 20, 2013 | Education
Building on President Obama's “Preschool for All Initiative” proposed earlier this year – that would dramatically expand access to prekindergarten programs for 4-year olds – Democratic leaders in both chambers last week introduced the "Strong Start for America's...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 12, 2013 | Education
It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry when an "All-Purpose-Pundit" at The New York Times takes it upon him/herself to write a commentary about education. "Thomas Friedman is infamous for his uninformed pieces on education," Larry Ferlazzo, a full-time...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 6, 2013 | Education
"I'm tired of you people. What do you want?" Those were the words New Jersey Governor Chris Christie used to respond to one of his constituents, a taxpayer, and a public servant of the state, who had the temerity to question the governor's leadership of the state's...
