Education Establishment Opinion
-
PAGLIERY and RAWSLEY: The Mike Huckabee Children’s Books Masquerading as Education
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has been promoting conservative children’s books for years, but recently these books—and the company that…
Read More » -
KNEIDEL: Our School Board Refused to Mandate Masks. Now Things Are Bad. Really Bad.
“In normal times, my job involves a variety of things... Now it’s just COVID. All day and every day, COVID.”
Read More » -
LONG: Betsy DeVos Is Still Undermining Public Schools. Next Target: Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles, Betsy DeVos is using the chaos of COVID-19 to push a voucher scheme that would force public…
Read More » -
BERKSHIRE: Charter Schools’ Scary Future
Today the charter school movement itself is perhaps more vulnerable than it has ever been.
Read More » -
RICHARDS and WONG: Parents Want Kids to Learn About Ongoing Effects of Slavery – but Not Critical Race Theory. They’re the Same Thing.
That disconnect underscores the heated feelings parents have about race-related conversations and how teachers should be handling that and other…
Read More » -
SMITH: Schools Become Political ‘Battlefield’ in Culture Wars Trump Cultivated
Schools have become the focal point for culture war fights that animated former President Donald Trump's base and have been…
Read More » -
WILKINS: Koch Network Infiltration of Public Schools ‘Harms Students, Teachers, and Our Democracy’: Report
A new report published Wednesday reveals how the Koch network—a shadowy group of wealthy capitalists acting to push the U.S.…
Read More » -
BURRIS: Elites Profit From ‘Nonprofit’ Charter Schools
Charter schools don’t improve education outcomes. But they do funnel taxpayer money into the pockets of unscrupulous — often criminal…
Read More » -
CLARKE: Increasing Charter School Costs Burden Taxpayers
These increases aren’t the result of any improvement or expansion in charter school services. These increases are purely a function…
Read More » -
HOOVER: Critical Race Theory Hysteria Overshadows the Importance of Teaching Kids About Racism
I teach high school. My students are mature and smart enough to handle these kinds of topics.
Read More » -
RICHERT: How Critical Race Theory Turned Into a Political ‘Bogeyman’
As education culture wars consumed the Statehouse this spring, the running joke was that Idaho educators were scrambling to Google…
Read More » -
HUNTSBERRY: Conservatives Want a Safe Space From Critical Race Theory
Conservatives increasingly want to shield children from learning historical facts that might make them uncomfortable. Yet uncomfortable realities about the…
Read More » -
SANOFF: How Sex Education in Public Schools Has Evolved Over the Last 60 Years and Its Impact on LGBTQ Students
US sex-education policy is predominantly decided by state governments and has historically supported abstinence-only programs, which can create a hostile…
Read More » -
STRAUSS: Florida’s Republicans Keep Their Attacks on Public Education Right on Coming
It’s Florida, where Republican officials have long since abandoned the pretense that they believe communities should run their own public…
Read More » -
ORTEGA: Charter Schools Are Public Schools – They Have to Be Held Accountable to the Taxpayers
Every Pennsylvania student deserves a good education, and every student in Pennsylvania deserves an education that works best for them.
Read More » -
COHEN: School Privatization Lobby Places Fake News on Local Stations
With Ed Newsfeed, the Betsy DeVos-funded American Federation for Children distributes syndicated content to TV stations. They run it as…
Read More » -
KINGKADE, ZADROZNY and COLLINS: Critical Race Theory Battle Invades School Boards — With Help From Conservative Groups
A booby-trapped billboard. A list of demands. A conservative media frenzy.
Read More » -
MYSTAL: The Miseducation of White Children
The attacks on critical race theory are just another attempt to prevent this country from reckoning with its racist past…
Read More » -
PRZYBYLA: Schools Across U.S. Plagued With ‘Third World’ Issues
Clumpy lead paint and plaster curl off the walls of some inner-city Philadelphia schools. Staff members at a Florida school…
Read More » -
COHEN: School Choice and Charter Proponents Target Public Education in Key States
But teachers and their allies are fighting back in Arizona, Kentucky and elsewhere.
Read More » -
SINGER: Can Unions Defang Charter School Vampires?
After all, when encumbered by the need to collectively bargain with employees, can a charter still do all its usual…
Read More » -
COVERT: How Teachers Fought for Their Safety in the Pandemic—and Won
As the debate over in-person schooling roiled, teachers’ unions secured significant protections—often with parents’ support.
Read More » -
FARMER: Financialization Created Chicago Public Schools’ Fiscal Crisis
Chicago Public Schools has constantly found itself in fiscal crises in recent years, crises that then justify brutal austerity. But…
Read More » -
SMITH: Free Black Thought: A Manifesto
To build a truly antiracist society, we need to listen to all black voices, not just those deemed "authentic."
Read More » -
MECKLER and NATANSON: As Schools Expand Racial Equity Work, Conservatives See a New Threat in Critical Race Theory
The nation’s reckoning over race has reached thousands of U.S. schools, and so, too, has a conservative backlash.
Read More »