Education Establishment Opinion
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WYMAN: Schools Face Parents Who Want to Ban Critical Race Theory — and Don’t Get How Teaching Works
Parents and politicians across the country are interfering with the curricula that public schools use to teach students.
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HEUVEL: Progressives Can No Longer Cede School Boards to the GOP
They should treat them as political arenas in which to fight—and win.
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WILLIAMS: ‘Parents’ Rights’ Is Code for White Race Politics
Virginia Republicans are back with a new and improved "Culture Wars" campaign for 2021. The closing argument is once again…
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BERKSHIRE: The GOP’s Grievance Industrial Complex Invades the Classroom
When parents become a posse of vigilantes, outrage is in the saddle instead of teaching or learning.
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SCHNEIDER and BERKSHIRE: Parents Claim They Have the Right to Shape Their Kids’ School Curriculum. They Don’t.
In their search for issues that will deliver Congress in 2022, conservatives have begun to circle around the cause of…
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TIEMAN: Fellow Missouri Teachers: It’s Your Fault if You Refuse the Vaccine and Lose Your Job
The St. Louis Public Schools now demand 100% vaccination of all teachers. By the time you read this, a lot…
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WEHLE: The Sleeper SCOTUS Case That Threatens the Separation of Church and State
Carson v. Makin could set a new precedent for how taxpayer dollars are used to fund religious education.
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KATYAL: Schools Need to Undo the Damage of Pods
Many students spent last year surrounded only by those most like themselves.
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WELNER: Why Charter Schools Are Not as ‘Public’ as They Claim to Be
Proponents of charter schools insist that they are public schools “open to all students.” But the truth is more nuanced.
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JOYCE: Republicans Don’t Want to Reform Public Education. They Want to End It.
Florida’s recent struggles over masks in schools augur a terrifying shift in the right’s approach to education policy.
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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…
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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.”
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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…
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BERKSHIRE: Charter Schools’ Scary Future
Today the charter school movement itself is perhaps more vulnerable than it has ever been.
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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