Paul Waldman: Republicans Are Vilifying America’s Schools. When Will Democrats Fight Back?
Paul Waldman is an opinion columnist for The Washington Post. In this article, he criticizes Democrats for failing to stand up to Republican slanders and...
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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...
Heather Cox Richardson Looks Back on 2021
Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian at Boston College. I enjoy reading her views, which are always well-informed. She writes: Heather Cox RichardsonDec 31...
Familiar Faces on Biden Education Team
I somehow missed a story that appeared in Education Week last February, identifying the background of Biden appointees to the U.S. Department of Education. What...
Steve Ruis: Are Democrats Tricking the GOP into Resisting Vaccines?
Steve Ruis posed an interesting suggestion in a comment yesterday. What if Democrats tricked Republicans into fighting vaccines and masks? He wrote: Maybe we should...
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...
Michelle Goldberg: Democrats Must Fix Public Schools Or…
Michelle Goldberg is a regular columnist for the New York Times. In this post, she says that Republicans are cynically exploiting parents’ exhaustion with pandemic...
Reader: Racism Explains the Youngkin Victory in Virginia
A reader who signs in as “Democracy” posted the following comment in response to Jennifer Berkshire’s article in The Nation. Berkshire argued that Terry McAuliffe...
Jennifer Berkshire: The Real Reason McAuliffe Lost in Virginia
Jennifer Berkshire, education journalist and co-author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door (with Jack Schneider) explains in The Nation the real reason why Terry...
Berkshire and Bailey: The Democrats Are Not Champions of Public Schools
Veteran journalist Jennifer Berkshire speculated on Twitter about why Democrats failed to defend public schools against extremists. The answer is that they swerved into the...