Education Establishment
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NOONOO: ACT Says Grade Inflation Is a Serious Problem. It’s Probably Not.
The ACT has seen the writing on the wall—and it doesn’t look good.
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BUTLER: How the Conservative Christian Right Is Hijacking Homeschooling
The conservative Christian right has been working hard to dismantle public schooling for years.
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ZIMMERMAN: The Sex Ed Wars Will Never End
Even in a less religious society, there’s no easy answer to the sex-ed debate.
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MATHEWS: How False Reports of Homework Overload in America Have Spread So Far
What most teenagers do with the rest of their free time has little connection to trampolines, bicycles or other healthy…
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BRAZILE: This Teacher Appreciation Week, Give Educators and Students the Gift of Facts
This is Teacher Appreciation Week, coming at a time when teachers are being unfairly demonized and denounced by the right…
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CARDONA: Teachers Are Suffering, So We’re Putting Our Appreciation Into Action
It's time state, local and federal government leaders treat the teaching profession as the profound public service it is.
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PIERCE: Protecting Public Education Funds From For-Profit Charter Schools
Recently, the U.S. Department of Education issued proposed rules that, among many other things, seek to bring what I believe…
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PAWLEWICZ: Too Many White Parents Don’t Understand the True Purpose of Public Schools
School districts and states across the country, enabled by big dollars from far-right political organizations, have moved to make teaching…
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WEINGARTEN: Extremists Are Using Lies to Undermine America’s Public Schools: We Need to Take a Stand
Just as extremists have used the Big Lie about the 2020 presidential election to undermine American democracy, far-right advocates of…
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HARRIS: School Boards Are No Match for America’s Political Dysfunction
What happens when schools are no longer the central business of school boards?
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LANG: Parents of Trans Kids Don’t Know Where Their Children Can Be Safe
This family already fled Texas due to anti-transgender policies. Now their new home of Arizona is enacting them too.
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MILLHISER: The Supreme Court’s ‘Praying Coach’ Case, Explained
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District is the culmination of 60 years of fears about religious coercion by public schools.
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KRAUSHAAR: To Teach Is to Martyr. The Past Two Years Have Made That Uncomfortably Obvious.
Schools rely on teachers to care, even at our own expense.
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TAYLOR: Barring Discussions of Race From the Classroom Doesn’t Protect Students — It Ignores the Reality They Live Every Day
Critically conscious curriculums — including lessons that focus on the role of race in American history — have been a…
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VANAVER: Education Needs a Reset. We Can Start by Listening to Our Teachers.
Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education…
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O’MATZ: What Increasingly Partisan and Venomous Wisconsin School Board Races Reveal About American Elections
As traditionally nonpartisan school board campaigns become polarized battlegrounds, voters in next week’s Wisconsin races may set the tone for…
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TATE: We All Know Teachers Are Underpaid. But Who Imagined It Was This Bad?
New data shows how much teachers rely on side hustles simply to survive.
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ABRAMS: The Lesson in Republicans’ Alarming Embrace of ‘Classical Education’
Religious charter schools are plainly a threat to pluralistic society. But should liberals learn something from them?
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GRUNER: I No Longer Grade My Students’ Work – and I Wish I Had Stopped Sooner
I’ve been teaching college English for more than 30 years. Four years ago, I stopped putting grades on written work,…
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CAUTERUCCI: Republicans Are Furious That People Are Calling Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill a ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill
Earlier this month, the Florida state legislature passed a ban on certain classroom instruction about LGBTQ life. Critics have dubbed…
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