Jim Sleeper: How Yale Molded the Cold War Mentality and Leadership
Jim Sleeper is a journalist and alumnus of Yale, as well as a lecturer there. He published an enlightening article about the role of Yale...
Category : Accountability
Guess Who Slipped a Pro-Corporate Provision into the Infrastructure Bill?
“In the Public Interest” is our best source for alerts about privatization. Here is their latest warning. Welcome back to our weekly newsletter for people...
Billy Townsend: Is the Era of High-Stakes Standardized Testing Coming to an End?
Billy Townsend of Florida writes here about an emerging development: the end of high-stakes testing. As a candidate, Biden promised to end it, but didn’t....
Sweden: Why Do For-Profit Schools Survive Despite Overwhelming Public Opposition?
Sweden is one of the few nations that allow for-profit schools to be funded by the government. The United States also funds for-profit schools with...
Texas: The District Needed Funding for More Schools. Instead, the Commissioner Opened More Charter Schools
Enrollments in the Cleveland Independent School District in Texas was growing rapidly. Voters passed bond issues, but it wasn’t enough. The superindent turned to the...
Audrey Watter’s Brilliant New Book on the Origins of Ed Tech
I had the pleasure of reading the galleys of Audrey Watter’s fascinating new book—Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning—about the origins of education technology,...
Koch Network Funds Parent Anti-Mask Protests
Conservative groups are funding protests against “critical race theory.” Now we learn, thanks to investigative reporting by the Washington Post, that the rightwing libertarian Koch...
D.C.: Time for Fundamental Changes in Charter Sector
Valerie Strauss posted an important essay on her blog “The Answer Sheet” by Steve Bumbaugh, a former member of the D.C. Public Charter School Board...
John Tanner: Why Do Politicians Cling to Failed Education Policies?
John Tanner is a blogger in San Antonio. In this post, he asks a question that I have asked myself many times: Why do ”reformers”...
Valerie Strauss: What Is DeSantis Plan to “End Standardized Testing”?
Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post uses her awesome journalistic skills to try to figure out what Governor Ron DeSantis means when he says he...