by Jeff Bryant | May 23, 2013 | Education
Anyone who thinks education is the "civil rights issue of our time" needs to look at what's going on in Chicago. In three days of protests over the weekend and lapping into Monday, people who look like they would be involved in a civil rights cause – mostly...
by Jeff Bryant | May 15, 2013 | Education
"It's always hard to tell for sure exactly when a revolution starts," wrote John Tierny in The Atlantic recently. "I'm not an expert on revolutions," he continued, "but even I can see that a new one is taking shape in American K-12 public education." Tierney pointed...
by Jeff Bryant | May 8, 2013 | Education
By now it's become clear to anyone willing to pay attention that our nation's obsession over education standards and testing has gotten out of hand. Ratcheting education standards ever higher at the same time we cut supports that schools and students need to reach...
by Jeff Bryant | May 1, 2013 | Education
Cuts to government spending like the now-reviled "sequester" are not only "dumb" as my colleague Robert Borosage explained this week. They are literally making us dumber. What's dumb is to cut money for air traffic controllers and endanger airline passengers and...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 24, 2013 | Education
By now, there have been plenty of negative reactions to last week's defeat of sensible gun regulation in the U.S. Senate due to the power of the gun lobby to have more sway with senators than popular opinion has. In his Rose Garden address, President Obama was...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 16, 2013 | Education
Now that every major media outlet has weighed in on the budget that President Obama introduced last week, the conventional wisdom is that Obama has proposed a "balance" of new revenues and spending cuts with an emphasis on sacrificing "entitlements" enjoyed by old...
