Education Establishment Opinion
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PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: New Campaign to Fight Vouchers, Protect Public Education
Education Law Center (ELC), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the SPLC Action Fund have joined forces on a…
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WILEY: What People Get Wrong about Our Recommendation to Eliminate Gifted and Talented Programs
Change is scary, especially if news headlines make it feel like a scorching-of-the-earth approach, rather than feeding and seeding the…
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LAHM: Chicago’s Impending Teacher Strike Is Ten Years in the Making
The union is still fighting to restore the damage caused by a decade of austerity measures, layoffs, and budget cuts.
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RUSSAKOFF: The Secret to Success Academy’s Top-Notch Test Scores
The biggest revelation of Pondiscio’s research comes not from inside classrooms at all.
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RAVITCH: The Walton Family Plot to Privatize the Public Schools of Arkansas
The headquarters of the Walton/Walmart billionaires is in Bentonville, Arkansas, so it is not surprising that the Walton Family Foundation…
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GREENE: We Need to Stop Talking about the Teacher Shortage
Calling the situation a “teacher shortage” suggests something like a crop failure or a hijacker grabbing truckloads before they can…
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LAHM: Why 2020 Dems Should Target the Nonprofit Charter School Industry
A battle over a beloved church building in the Twin Cities reveals how money can be made from charter school…
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CALDWELL: Playing Class Clown Could Cost Kentucky Governor His Job
Educators are organizing to teach the state’s Trump-loving governor a civics lesson in November.
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MATEK: Evidence Points to Charter Schools Having Lower Performance
A new study released by EdSource last week points to a new threat to teacher salaries, graduation rates, and student…
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DAVIS: Kentucky Governor Shows His Disdain for Democracy
Recently, Gov. Matt Bevin issued an executive order that disbanded and reconstituted seven education committees.
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DOMENECH: New Federal Rules Will Damage School Districts — Ultimately Harming the Students They Serve
I am deeply concerned that the regulation will put the health and well being of millions of immigrant children at…
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KLEIN and MARANS: Cory Booker Transformed Newark Schools. Some Residents Still Haven’t Forgiven Him for It.
The former mayor’s education work made him a national darling. But the people of Newark are ambivalent about his reforms.
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ERFLE: The Biggest Fight over Education Funding Isn’t Who Gets the Money, It’s Who Benefits Most
Among the lobbying camps, there are two very distinct ideologies driving the push for funding.
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CHAN-KRAUSHAR: Why Culturally Responsive Education Matters: Never Mind the Naysayers
With this lens, educators can redefine learning experiences to reflect students’ cultural brilliance and develop students’ sense of identity.
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WALKER: Has the Personalized Learning Hype Worn Off?
The U.S. public education system has been squeezed by a series of half-baked innovations or “reforms” over the past couple…
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LUNDQUIST: Reinvesting in Teachers Is the Best Way to Fix Public Education
Teachers are no longer getting the training and professional development they need. That is simply unacceptable.
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BALTIMORE SUN: To Help Baltimore and Other Major Cities, Invest More in Public Education
What our country needs now are viable ideas and solutions anchored in the acronym of H.O.P.E — Healing Our Public…
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BRYANT: A Movement Against Charter Schools Helped Oust Puerto Rico’s Governor
As Americans lament the current sorry state of democracy in Washington, D.C., government by the will of the people was…
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ROZSA: School Lunches and the Cult of Free-Market Capitalism: America’s Destructive Faith
Right-wing ideologues would rather punish poor families than admit there's anything wrong with capitalism.
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BRYANT: Why Won’t the Charter School Industry Acknowledge Its Documented Failures
Public schools remain society’s most preferred and best attempt to guarantee an education to every child, while private enterprises like…
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BACHA: How the ‘School Choice’ Movement Has Its Roots in Racism
Charter schools and the “school choice” movement have become a major part of the fabric of the American education system…
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RIM: Did Betsy DeVos’s School Choice Program Enable Puerto Rico’s Corruption Scandal?
This scandal comes as a shock to many, but those who have been paying close attention to Keleher’s salary and…
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VAUGHAN: Educational Fight or Flight
How do you keep rural schools open when enrollment is declining and small towns are emptying out?
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LEONARD and NASIRIPOUR: Trump Picked His Perfect Education Secretary in Betsy DeVos
She said, “Government sucks.” Now she’s rolling back Obama-era student protections.
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SACKS: DeVos, Charters and School Choice Hurt African American Children
Charters (a.k.a. “school choice”) hurt African American children by draining critical funds from public education. Charters’ “success," limited and questionable…
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