Why Are Republican Leaders Killing Their Base By Spreading Misinformation About Vaccines?
NPR reported the results of a survey that correlated COVID death rates in thousands of counties by political affiliations. The counties carried by Trump in...
PBS: Anti-CRT Laws Make Teachers Fearful of Teaching about Race and Racism
PBS NewsHour posted an AP story that described the chilling effect of anti-“Critical Race Theory” laws. Laws that ban the teaching of certain subjects and...
Jack Hassard: Teaching Science with Art, Not “Standards”
Jack Hassard taught science teachers for many years at the Georgia State University. He now blogs frequently at The Art of Teaching Science. This post...
John Thompson: The Ordeal of Julius Jones in Oklahoma
You may recall that a young Black man named Julius Jones was sentenced to death for murder in Oklahoma. He insisted on his innocence, and...
Civil Rights Groups, Unions Form Coalition to Urge Federal Funding for Community Schools
If you don’t know the work of Jitu Brown, this is a good time to inform yourself. Jitu Brown has worked for many years as...
Missouri Parent to Legislature: Don’t Defund Our Rural Schools with Charters and Vouchers
The Network for Public Education created a website where. Parents could express their views about their schools. This post was written by Jessica Piper, a...
Jan Resseger Tackles the Issue of Parent Rights and Children’s Right to Learn
The issue of parent rights has emerged as part of a larger strategy to control what topics can be taught in school and which books...
Peter Greene on the GOP’s “Parent Bill of Rights”
Peter Greene reviews efforts by Congressional Republicans to pass legislation guaranteeing parent rights. He goes through the legislation point-by-point and concludes that most of the...
Samuel Abrams: Should France Establish Charter Schools?
Samuel Abrams is the Director of the National Center for the Study of Privaization in Education. He writes here about his recent work on education...
Nancy Flanagan on the Killings at Oxford High School
Nancy Flanagan, a retired teacher in Michigan and expert blogger, asks rhetorically, “Who is to blame?” Obviously the shooter and his parents, who bought the...