Education Establishment Opinion
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VOCK, RANGARAJAN and SMITH: GreatSchools Wanted to Disrupt Online School Ratings. But Did It Make Neighborhood Segregation Worse?
The website has become the go-to source for information on local schools, entwining itself in how people buy homes.
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MESSER-KRUSE: The 1776 Unites Project Is an Exercise in Empty Capitalist Boosterism
Praised by education secretary Betsy DeVos as "wonderful," the materials aren't a serious look at American history — they’re empty…
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O’DELL: Though It Has No Teachers, This Company Gets Millions Meant for Private, Charter Schools
To backers, Prenda microschools represent a “return to the one-room schoolhouse” of the past, empowering parents to educate their children…
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CAMPBELL: How the Department of Education Prioritized Private School Vouchers Over Responding to COVID-19
Long-term efforts to improve choices within the public school system are also important, but leveraging the crisis to focus on…
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PERRY: When Poorly Veiled Bigotry Masquerades as Choice
Trump loves ‘choice’ because it’s always been a term racists can love.
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TRUEBA: The Pandemic Created a Surge in Homeschooling—and Concerns about the Movement’s Christian Culture
A nationwide surge in homeschooling seemed far-fetched six months ago, but today, 60 percent of parents say they are likely…
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DOWNEY: Teachers as Critical Eorkers: Does ‘Essential’ Mean Ensnared?
In normal times, many teachers would appreciate being dubbed essential. This pandemic is not a normal time. Some educators contend…
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PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Cyber Charters May Benefit from Pandemic, but That Doesn’t Mean Their Students Do
Every disaster has winners and losers, but this pandemic has inflicted more loss than most — in terms of both…
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GERSTEIN: Labor Day Is a Time to Recognize All Unions Do — to Help Health Care, Education, Even Marriage
The positive effects of unions extend far beyond their members, benefiting the general public in surprising and unexpected ways.
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BLACK: Betsy DeVos’ Sneak Attack
Naively, Congress assumed that DeVos would put coronavirus response ahead of her ideological agenda. They were wrong, and now she…
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CAUTERUCCI: School Choice Was the Main Policy Mentioned at Monday’s RNC. Why?
Almost every speaker mentioned school choice by name.
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MOYLAN and SCHEPARD: Teachers Know Schools Aren’t Safe to Reopen
No wonder our union is considering a strike.
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HOLDEN: The Kids Are Alt-Right: When Your Star Pupil Gets Red-Pilled
Teachers know the warning signs when students are radicalized by online hate movements. They just don’t know how to stop…
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SACKS: Thomas Sowell Launches Misguided Assault on Teacher Tenure
Evaluating teachers’ effectiveness is the job of administrators, not teachers unions. It is not quick or easy to fire a…
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ROMBALSKI and CHIKKATUR: Stay in Public Schools: The Anti-Racism We Need from White Families During the Pandemic
Public schools across cities and inner ring suburbs are at risk of losing significant funding through the loss of enrollment.
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MENAS: 6 Reasons Educators Are Excited about Kamala Harris
As a first term Senator in California, Harris earned a final grade of “A” from the NEA for her focus…
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TREVEAVEN: Get Ready for a Teacher Shortage Like We’ve Never Seen Before
If we force teachers to return to schools during an out-of-control pandemic, I don’t know how many will stick around.
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BLOOMFIELD: How Private Schools Have Profited from the Pandemic
The basic American tenet of public schools supported by taxpayers for the common good is being left behind in a…
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JONES: Parents Are Flocking to Virtual Schools and Homeschooling. They’ll Find a Minefield.
HSLDA’s bid for mainstream appeal arrives at a critical moment for parents. As school districts and states debate reopening plans,…
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McCARTIN: Will the Teachers Take Control?
No group is better positioned than organized teachers to force Washington to develop a national plan to deal with the…
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BERND: COVID-19 ‘Microschools’ Are Betsy DeVos’s Latest Privatization Scheme
Right-wing and Libertarian proponents of privatization, including Charles Koch, the Walton Family Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the Reason Foundation and…
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FERNANDEZ: COVID-19 School Guidance from Trump and the CDC Paints Teachers as Villains
Mere months ago, the nation’s teachers were lauded, having turned on a dime from in-person to remote instruction. That glow…
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MONTAGUE: Trump and DeVos’s Plan to Reopen Schools Hides a Sinister Agenda
Turning schools into hotbeds of infection is in line with Betsy DeVos’s plan to undermine the public school system.
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WARD: Teachers Add Updating Wills to Back-to-School To-Do List amid Pandemic
As COVID-19 has uprooted the lives of so many — myself included, I did something today that I did not…
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SCIARRA and BLACK: Betsy DeVos Just Crossed Another Line. She’s an Ongoing Danger to Teachers and Students.
Schools must look inward, assess local COVID-19 conditions and ignore pressure from DeVos. They have authority over whether to reopen.…
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