by Jeff Bryant | Nov 29, 2012 | Blog, Education, The Sequester
Public education's fiscal cliff already happened. The "austerity bomb" Paul Krugman warns us of in the New York Times was already dropped on public schools at least two years ago. And what impact the sequestration has on education is, in comparison, a ground assault....
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 18, 2012 | Blog, Education
In President Obama's stunningly convincing reelection, only part of his education policies got reaffirmed -- the part he talked about most of the time during the campaign. Meanwhile, the president's policies known to align with what is commonly called "education...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog, Education
Way back at the beginning of this summer, an eternity it seems in this exhausting presidential campaign, The College Board launched its Don’t Forget Ed campaign to "get the candidates to prioritize education this election." The campaign kicked off, according to an...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog, Education
The online petition site Change.org is best known for enabling individuals to use the viral qualities of the internet to speak truth to power, such as when a 22-year-old nanny used the site to pressure a big bank to drop its debit fee, and an Eagle Scout challenged...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 12, 2012 | Blog, Education
In her recent Washington Post op-ed, Michelle Rhee ruminated over the outcome of the Chicago Teachers Strike and concluded that not only were the Chicago teachers "never about the kids" but also had made a practical, political mistake by not being in step with the...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 13, 2012 | Blog, Education
"So much for Democratic harmony," is the way Herold Meyerson chose to start his op-ed in The Washington Post analyzing the ramifications of the current Chicago teachers strike on the well being of the Democratic party. His conclusion is that there must be some kind of...
