By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. May 21, 2015 1:58 PM | Photographic Credit; Young girls near the scene of a burned CVS in West Baltimore. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) The disturbing death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore while in police custody, and the ensuing [...]
Most of the news media have no idea how schools run, but they write about them as if they do. By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at AlterNet. March 16, 2015 Photograph; What reform means to our students. Be afraid of "truisms" tossed about and twisted into [...]
For years, states have cut education spending and put policies in place that left our schools and students "failing." Recently, contentious reelection races often included criticism of budget cuts and reduced education spending. It would seem that some Conservative Republican Governors have begun to get the message; [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. October 17, 2014 at 7:49 am | Illustration Credit; The Blind Elephant Collective Jessica Tobin Sometimes when you get enough people beating on the outside of a building, those sitting comfortably on the inside start to feel [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Campaign For America's Future. October 2, 2014 | Parents, residents, and teachers protest history curriculum. Jefferson County Schools. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post) When hundreds of high school students across a suburban school district outside of Denver, Colo. recently walked [...]
Fraud, financial mismanagement, lousy results: Reports highlight awful charter schools and people are catching on By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Salon. October 2, 2014 8:30 AM Diane Ravitch and Michelle Rhee; drawing by James Ferguson Last week when former President Bill Clinton meandered onto the [...]
Photograph Credit; Mario Tama / Getty Images By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Campaign For America's Future. August 28, 2014 This time of year, while classroom teachers and administrators in public schools are busy welcoming students back to a new school year and figuring out how [...]
Failure to see race correlates to a failure to see the funding crisis. The School Reality White People Cannot See is that education is not equitably funded. (Image: flickr / cc / cortonflow)By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Our Future. August 21, 2014 As the season [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. July 2, 2014 at 5:51 PMThe Cost of Leaving Educators Off The Education Agenda This act is wearing thin. As implementations of Common Core State Standards falter around the country, supporters of the new academic benchmarks [...]
