Chris Lubienski: The Deceptive Language of School Choice
Chris Lubienski is a professor of education policy at Indiana University. He wrote recently with Amanda Potterton and Joe Malin about the deceptive rhetoric of...
A Proposal to Revive the Federal Writers’ Project
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration devised highly successful programs to create jobs and at the same time, perform useful public...
Nina Rees on Efforts to Reduce Funding for Charter Schools | C-SPAN.org
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools’ Nina Rees talked about congressional efforts to reduce federal funding of charter schools.— Watch on www.c-span.org/video/ House Democrats want...
White Evangelicals Want to Destroy the Public Schools
Katherine Stewart’s new book The Power Worshippers describes the hostility of evangelical Christians to public schools. I reviewed her book along with two others in...
North Carolina: The Racism Behind the State Statute Barring Discriminatuon
The North Carolina General Assembly is considering legislation that ostensibly bans discrimination in the state’s classrooms. But the real purpose of the statute is to...
“Bill Gates Should Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need”
Writing in Scientific American, Million Belay and Beatrice Mugambe complain that the Gates Foundatuon is steering African agriculture in the wrong direction. Financed by Gates,...
Paul Butler: UNC’s Treatment of Nikole Hannah-Jones Was a Demonstration of CRT
Paul Butler is a professor at the Georgetown University School of Law. In the Washington Post, where he is a contributing columnist, he writes that...
Axios: GOP States Enacting Laws to Prevent Discrimination Against the Unvaccinated
Caitlin Owens of Axios writes that Republican-controlled states are considering or have enacted laws that ban discrimination against people who refuse to be vaccinated against...
Thomas B. Edsall: Is Education No Longer the Great Equalizer?
This article by the political journalist Thomas B. Edsall appeared in the New York Times. I don’t think the title of the original (used here)...
Sean Hannity: Get Vaccinated!
Sean Hannity said on FOX last night: MONOLOGUE OF THE NIGHT — Fox News host SEAN HANNITYurged his viewers Monday night to “please take Covid...