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Get Ready For America’s Next ‘Education Crisis’
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” has become a popular mantra of the ruling class. Of course, these are not the people who usually experience the brunt of a crisis. But a pervasive...
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StudentsFirst Rheeport Card Is More Education “Reform” For Reform’s Sake
It’s altogether fitting that this week’s marking of the 11th anniversary of the No Child Left Behind legislation coincided with yet another groundbreaking, revolutionary, radical advocacy piece for...
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Why Progressives Should Care About The Backlash On Standardized Testing
Last week, celebrated statistics guru Nate Silver laid a bugger on advocates for test-driven education, the current policy fad that enamors Republicans and Democrats alike who fancy themselves as...
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Did Obama Just Perform A ‘Progressive Pivot-Point’ On Education Policy?
It was hard for a progressive not to get a chocolate high from President Obama’s inauguration speech. Indeed it was full of treats: a “dramatic and sweeping argument for equality” . . . “a commitment...
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The Inconvenient Truth Of Education “Reform”
Events in the past week showed how market-driven education policies, deceivingly labeled as “reform,” are revealing their truly destructive effects on the streets and in the corridors of government....
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Michelle Rhee And The Relentless Marketing Of Education ‘Reform’
Is it over yet? Michelle Rhee’s barnstorming of America this week, to hawk her new memoir, taxed the stamina of even the most ardent education wonk. It was a relentless PR campaign that would truly be...
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New Report Urges Education Secretary To Take Inequality ‘More Seriously’
Raising the alarm that “America has lost its place as a global leader in educational attainment,” a report issued today by an independent commission chartered by Congress to advise the U.S. Department...
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What’s Keeping America From Doing What’s Right For Children
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...
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Is Right-Wing School Reform (Texas) Toast?
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...
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Sequester Cuts Confirm Republicans Are Party Of Deadbeat Dads
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...
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Renew The American Commitment To Opportunity
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...
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The Disempowerment Of Public School Parents
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...
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Where Are Progressives In The Fight To Save Public Schools?
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...
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The Democratic Party’s Anti-Democratic Education Policy
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...
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Will Charter Schools Survive The Charter School Movement?
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...
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Occupy The Department Of Education Ushers In America’s Angry Spring
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...
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When Making Deals In D.C. Hurts Children
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...
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Why Education Advocates Join the Progressive Opposition to Obama’s Budget
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...
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School-to-Prison Pipeline: Wrong Lessons From Sandy Hook
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...
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Sequester Cuts Are Dumb, Education Cuts Are Dumber
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...
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