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...
Category : Education Reform
Florida: Can Schools Wipe Out Racism by Banning Books about It?
The Orlando Sentinel editorial board published a statement denouncing the current zeal for censorship in schools and school libraries. (To learn about the history of...
Charles Pierce: Do You Feel Safer After the Kenosha Trial?
Charles Pierce is a wonderful writer who has a regular column in Esquire magazine. He often seems to write just what I was thinking. If...
The View from Canada: Why Public Schools Are Public
As we wade through the muck of a national effort to privatize public schools and replace them with “school choice,” via privately-run charters and vouchers,...
Georgia Verdict: Guilty
The defendants were found guilty of murder and other charges on Wednesday for the pursuit and fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery. They face up to...
Steve Nelson: The Campaign to Destroy Public Education
Steve Nelson, a retired educator, describes the calculated and underhanded effort to destroy public education, a ruse that proceeds by stealth and loaded language. He...
Niall Ferguson: Higher Education is Hopelessly Left-Wing, So We Are Starting a New College
Niall Ferguson is a historian who has been a professor at Oxford, New York University and Harvard. He is now at the Hoover Institution, a...
Arthur Camins: Tell It to Your School Board: We Demand Science and Care
Arthur Camins is a retired science educator. In this post, he emphasizes the importance of teaching students to ask the right questions, rather than memorize...
Peter Greene: Ranking States by Their Hostility to Public Education
Peter Greene realized that supporters of public education have been lacking the very thing that catches the attention of the public and the media: reports...
Arnold Hillman: Something’s Screwy with These Salaries
Arnold Hillman and his wife Carol are educators who retired from their workin Pennsylvania and moved to South Carolina, where they continued to work with...