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...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 9, 2013 | Education, The Sequester
Everyone at all familiar with the Judgment of Solomon has to be aghast as political leaders reverse that Biblical wisdom and proceed to "split the difference" over who gets whose way on matters affecting children. Instead of putting the interests of children first,...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 8, 2013 | Education
No offense, but the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education building in Washington, DC is not a pretty sight. Crossing the National Mall on 4th street, you pass between the glisteningly modern National Air and Space Museum and the sculpted brown stone of the...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 2, 2013 | Education
America's education polices are brimming with contradiction. Schools, we're told, need more standardization, but parents need more choices, which standardization precludes. Teachers need to be held to more accountability, but entry into the teaching force needs to be...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 26, 2013 | Education
This post is republished from the Education Opportunity Network, a new online publication edited by Jeff Bryant. Chicago, the city famous for "big shoulders," has a big mouth, too. Spurred by an alarming level of school building closures – 61 in all – mandated by...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 19, 2013 | Education
This post is republished from the Education Opportunity Network, a new online publication edited by Jeff Bryant. This week, here was Paul Krugman's assessment of the current policy agenda governing the nation's public schools: "We have the illusion of consensus, an...
