Join Nancy MacLean and Me to Talk About Privatization of Our Nation’s Public Schools
I am delighted to invite you to join a webinar where the eminent Duke historian Nancy MacLean and I will discuss “Public Education in Chains,”...
Category : Billionaires
A Letter to Jonah Edelman
Dear Jonah, You don’t know me but I have followed your career. As the son of illustrious parents, much was expected of you. Stand for...
Good News in Charleston: School Board Delays Privatization Effort
It is great when good things happen, especially when they prove the power of the pen. Backstory: an anonymous reader of this blog left a...
John Merrow: The Lives We Lost
It has become traditional at the end of the year to pay tribute to those who died during the year. Usually, they are famous or...
Dark Money in the Holy City: A Short History of School Privatization in Charleston, South Carolina
Paul Bowers was the education reporter at the Charleston Post and Courier. He wrote this post at my request. A reader alerted me to the...
Who Demoralized the Nation’s Teachers? Readers Respond
Last week, I posted my thoughts on “Who Demoralized the Nation’s Teachers?” I sought to identify the people and organizations that spread the lie that...
Homi Kharas: How Billionaires Could Solve Global Problems with a 1% Tax
Homi Kharas of the Brookings Institution writes about ways that the world’s billionaires could solve persistent global problems by paying an annual tax of 1%...
Tom Ultican: The Attack on Democracy and Public Education by Charles Koch, ALEC, and Dark Money
Tom Ultican, retired teacher of physics and advanced mathematics, has written an incisive analysis of the libertarian attack on democracy and public education, funded by...
Republicans Stoop to Role of Schoolyard Bully
This article by Ed Montini in the Arizona Republic explains the childish behavior of Republican leaders, who engage in taunts instead of reasoned discourse about...
The.Ink Interviews the Architect of the Billionaires’ Tax
Anand Giridharadas interviewed Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who is sponsoring a ”billionaires’ tax,” which would tax assets, not just income. This tax on the...