Jesse Hagopian: We Will Not Teach Lies
Jesse Hagopian is an activist teacher in the Seattle Public Schools, a leader in Black Lives Matter at School and editor of the book More...
Month : January 2022
Robert Kuttner: Things Will Get Better for Biden
Robert Kuttner, editor of The American Prospect, predicts that Biden will turn around public opinion before the mid-term elections. Biden has been the target of...
Mercedes Schneider: They Can’t Ban MAUS Unless They Shut Down the Internet
Mercedes Schneider writes that it is literally impossible to ban a book that is easily available on the Internet. The school board of McMinn County,...
Paul Bonner: The Absurdity of Testing Kindergartners
Paul Bonner, who recently retired as a principal in Alabama, wrote the following comment as part of a discussion of administering NAEP to kindergartners. He...
The Real Crisis in Education
The Network for Public Education posted this article by Mark Perna, which originally appeared in Forbes. Mark C. Perna: Why Education Is About To Reach...
Good Government Is Not Socialism
The current Republican Party has reverted to the ace card it held in the 1950s: its followers refer to every government program as socialism. SOCIALISM!!...
New Study Finds Parents in England Dissatisfied by School Choice, Parents in Scotland Pleased with Their Local Schools
The Guardian in the U.K. reports on a study finding that parents in England are unhappy with the past three decades of “school choice.” By...
Tennessee School Board Bans Pulitzer-Prize Graphic Novel About the Holocaust
The school board in McMinn County, Tennessee, voted 10-0 to ban the Pulitzer-Prize winning graphic novel Maus from its schools. Board members complained about unacceptable...
Texas District Removes Challenged Books from School Library
You may recall that a Texas state legislator named Matt Krause released a list of some 850 books that he thought should be removed from...