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Traverse City, Michigan, Divided Over Racism and Critical Race Theory

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 30, 2021July 31, 2021

July 30, 2021July 31, 20210144

The national frenzy over “critical race theory” (CRT) has been generated by a small number of conservatives in search of a hot-button issue that would...

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Paul Thomas on the Media’s Search for Scapegoats in Education

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 19, 2019November 26, 2020

June 19, 2019November 26, 2020052

Paul Thomas Taught for nearly 20 years, then became a teacher educator at Furman University in South Carolina. He often writes about the media...

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Nancy Bailey: NCLB Is Gone But Continues to Ruin the Joy of Reading for Young Children

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7February 16, 2019November 26, 2020

February 16, 2019November 26, 2020063

Nancy Bailey reviews the impact of No Child Left Behind and its ill-fated “Reading First” component. NCLB came to be a hated law yet...

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Joanne Barkan: Who and What Are Behind the Privatization Movement?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 5, 2018December 6, 2020

June 5, 2018December 6, 2020054

Joanne Barkan has been writing brilliant articles about the billionaire assault on public education for several years. Her first was “Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule...

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Tom Ultican’s Sharp Critique of What Went Wrong and How to Make Things Right

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7May 28, 2017December 6, 2020

May 28, 2017December 6, 2020051

Tom Ultican became a teacher of math and physics in San Diego after a career in Silicon Valley. He is retiring. He loves teaching. He...

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Allies Should Work Together, But Not Everyone Agrees

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 18, 2016December 7, 2020

September 18, 2016December 7, 2020097

Jim Horn has a website called “Schools Matter.” He opposes corporate reform, as I do.I have never met him. I hear he doesn’t like me....

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NPE Action: Stop John King from Reviving NCLB Punishment System!

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 27, 2016December 7, 2020

June 27, 2016December 7, 2020074

Please open the link from NPE Action and, if you agree that John King is overreaching, write a letter to your member of Congress. King...

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After 15 Years of Fake “Reform,” U.S. Seniors See Slippage in Scores on NAEP

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 28, 2016December 7, 2020

April 28, 2016December 7, 2020041

Emma Brown, writing in the Washington Post, reports the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress: High school seniors showed a slippage in...