Christina Groeger: How Education Embedded Inequality
Historian of education Christina Groeger writes that Americans have long believed that education is the key to equality, but she thinks that this faith is...
Category : Poverty
Nicholas Kristof: We Are a Nation of Child Abusers
Nicholas Kristof wrote an important article in the New York Times about our national indifference to the well being of our children. Kristof knows that...
A Wonderful Typo! We Need Common CARE Standards!
Recently Tom Ultican responded to something I posted on Twitter. His response contained a typo. He meant to write “Common Core Standards,” but mistakenly wrote...
Valerie Strauss: Growing Number of States Want Waivers from Annual Testing
Valerie Strauss writes in her Washington Post blog called “The Answer Sheet” about the growing number of states that want waivers from the federal requirement...
The New York Times Should Add a Former Teacher to Its Editorial Board
The New York Times published an editorial correctly blasting Betsy DeVos as the worst Secretary of Education in the 40-year history of the Department of...
Report from South Carolina: Rasheem and LaRonda
Arnold and Carol Hillman were educators in Pennsylvania. They retired to South Carolina and, instead of golfing and relaxing, they became involved with rural public...
Reimagining Capitalism in Chelsea, Massachusetts
The Boston Globe reports that Chelsea, Mass., is about to launch a bold experiment in addressing the persistent problem of poverty. Chelsea, one of the...
Dana Milbank: McConnell “Helps” Working Families by Blocking Relief Bill
Dana Milbank is a regular writer for the Washington Post. He writes in this column about Mitch McConnell’s hypocrisy. The Trump administration and House Democratic...
John Thompson: Reflecting on “The Lost Year” for Students
John Thompson, historian and retired teacher in Oklahoma, read the New York Times Magazine’s report on the possibility of a “Lost Year” and wrote these...
Sarah Jones: America’s Schools Were Set Up to Fail
Sarah Jones is an amazingly perceptive writer who has trained her sights in the real crisis in American education: not low test scores, but underfunding...