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...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 12, 2013 | Education
For years, policy initiatives stemming from right-wing belief tanks have been wrapped in the rhetoric of positive outcomes that are, in fact, the complete opposite of what the measures are really intended to do. A bill called Clear Skies that called for more...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 7, 2013 | Economy, Education, The Sequester
A current debate raging among policy makers is whether America's dysfunctional education system has created our sick economy – or whether the country's sick economy has created widespread poverty with disadvantages that our education system can't possibly overcome. In...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 3, 2013 | Education, The Sequester
This post is republished from the Education Opportunity Network, a new online publication edited by Jeff Bryant. It's a popular analogy among fans of the political game to call Republicans the "Daddy Party" and assign "Mommy Party" to Democratic folk. The source of...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 26, 2013 | Education
This post is republished from the Education Opportunity Network, a new online publication edited by Jeff Bryant. It's a conventional wisdom among Democrats to write off the state of Texas as a land of gun wielding troglodytes who genuflect to Rush Limbaugh and swill...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 21, 2013 | Education
This post is republished from the Education Opportunity Network, a new online publication edited by Jeff Bryant. After the horrendous slaughter of 20 school children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a heartbroken President Obama implored the...
