By Robert B. Reich | Originally Published at Robert Reich. October 27, 2014 | Image from Flickr user Marian Dörk. Commenting on a recent student suicide at an Alaska high school, Alaska’s Republican Congressman Don Young said suicide didn’t exist in Alaska before “government largesse” gave residents [...]
By Bruce Fuller, University of California, Berkeley | Originally Published at The Conversation. October 24, 2014 5:49 AM | Photograph; Better hurry up if you want a place. Reuters/Adrees Latif Rookie New York mayor Bill de Blasio – poster child for America’s insurgent progressives – has promised [...]
By Kathleen Oropeza | Originally Published at The Edvocate October 23, 2014 | Graphic; Wrath of Testing Robert Rendo Florida politicians, Governor Scott and his appointed Board of Education expect every parent to rely on blind faith and believe that their child’s test score is true. Our [...]
We tell our children to "get an education." "School gives you the tools you will need to build a better future." "Attend." But what no one says aloud is there are restrictions. You are on a schedule. Earn a diploma, by all means, but only if you [...]
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 Marian Wang | Originally Published at ProPublica. October 15, 2014, 5:45 AM Every Year Millions In Public $$ Go To This Entrepreneur’s Charter Schools and For-Profit Companies He Controls. Baker Mitchell is a politically connected North Carolina businessman who celebrates the power of the [...]
By Robert B. Reich | Originally Published at Robert B. Reich. October 13, 2014 | Photographic Credit; People are led on a tour group at the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Reich argues that by way of tax deductible contributions from wealthy donors, the federal [...]
By Heather Ann Thompson | Originally Published at Huffington Post. October 6, 2014 5:59 am EDT | Juvenile Life Without Parole Photographic Credit; American Civil Liberties Union If 11-year-old Jordan Brown had yet had the opportunity in school to learn about the United Nations, it probably wouldn't [...]
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 [...]
