Education Establishment Opinion
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KLEIN: An Under-The-Radar SCOTUS Case Could Obliterate the Line Between Church and State
A Montana education program at the center of a Supreme Court case was filled with anti-LGBTQ schools.
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SANDERS: Florida Teachers Fighting for Public Education: I Stand with You
These educators are part of a massive nationwide movement, from Maine to California, that’s fighting back against years of underfunding,…
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DEMANUELLE-HALL and DIMAGGIO: The Year in Class Struggle
Labor is going into a new decade weaker than it’s been in nearly a century. But the year was a…
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STRAUSS: The Surprising Source of Key Data in a Report Critical of U.S. Charter School Program
Ever since the second report was published, critics have been attacking it, saying that it was exaggerated and even that…
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SARFO-MENSAH: Bringing a Culturally Responsive Lens to Math Class
A middle school math project gives students a chance to apply the skills they learn in class to an issue…
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KORETZ: American Students Aren’t Getting Smarter — And Test-Based ‘Reform’ Initiatives Are to Blame
The routine debate is underway about how bad this news is, but such arguments mostly miss a core lesson: America’s…
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BURRIS: Rating the Candidates at the Public Education Forum in Pittsburgh
Carol Burris led the delegation from the Network for Public Education at the Public Education Forum in Pittsburgh. Here are…
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PIANTA: The One Education Reform That Would Really Help? Giving Public Schools More Money
It is no secret that America’s schools face great challenges, including a shortage of high-quality teachers and an ever-growing achievement…
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NETWORK FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: Still Asleep at the Wheel: How the Federal Charter Schools Program Results in a Pileup of Fraud and Waste
In this report, we document over a half-billion dollars that was wasted on defunct charter schools that received grants from…
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STAR TRIBUNE: The Promise of Pre-K Education
What’s required to offer scholarships to the 35,000 children now left on their own? Big money, but not in comparison…
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PERRY: Support for Charters in 2020 Election Comes with a Price
Warren needs to learn from black voices — but the charter school movement is not ours to defend.
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RAVITCH: Robert Kuttner (and I) Challenge the New York Times Slant on Charter Schools
Many people have written to me to complain about an article that appeared Wednesday on the front page of the…
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POTTER: What Other Unions Can Learn from the Historic Gains We Won in the Chicago Teachers Strike
As a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) student from first grade through high school, and in my 17 years of teaching…
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INDIANA ED CHIEF: Championing Public Education Cannot Be Just a Moment; It Must Be a Movement
One in every three teachers who have entered an Indiana classroom in the last five years has abandoned the profession.
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THOMAS: Why Affordable Housing Is Built in Areas With High Crime, Few Jobs and Struggling Schools
Connecticut’s approach to affordable housing creates pockets of poverty, where low-income people are locked out of opportunities that are just…
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CONLEY: Billionaire Walton Family Behind Pro-Charter School Protest at Warren Rally
The grassroots-appearing demonstration was reportedly funded by the billionaire Walton family, which has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into…
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MILLET: The Charter-to-Prison Pipeline
The charter system that often paints itself as a better option for black parents does not acknowledge the harm rigid…
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BLACK: Democratic Candidates Want to Boost School Funding — Research Shows That Will Help Low-Income Students
With few exceptions, the various Democratic plans for public education share a common theme: more funding, less privatizing.
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MARTIN: A Charter School Gets Canceled for Wanting to Teach Indigenous History
The case has it all: white-centrism, the charter school problem, and the obscene way in which North Carolina is failing…
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KLEIN: Betsy DeVos Might Outlast Them All
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is one of the Trump administration’s most reviled Cabinet members. Here’s why she’s here to stay.
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FURFARO: Do Charter Schools Increase Socioeconomic Segregation?
Do charter schools affect school segregation by income? According to new research published this week, public schools in the United…
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SHELTON: There Is No Way Forward Without Organized Workers
Corporate leaders, reactionary Republicans, and neoliberal Democrats have told Americans to keep lowering their expectations — a better world isn’t…
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COPE: The Power of a Wealthy PTA
Thanks to parents’ donations, some public schools can afford shiny extras like coding classes, camping trips, and classroom iPads.
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MAAS: ‘When We Fight, We Win’: Chicago Teachers Score Another Victory for Public Education
The tentative agreement adds up to $1.5 billion in concessions to the teachers’ demands over five years. But the even…
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GREENE: The One and Only Lesson to Be Learned from NAEP Scores
The world of education is a fuzzy one, with some declaring that teaching is more art than science. But then…
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