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Jennifer Berkshire: The Bipartisan Coalition Supporting Charter Schools Is Dissolving

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 15, 2021September 16, 2021

September 15, 2021September 16, 202104

The talented investigative journalist Jennifer Berkshire reports on the changing politics behind charter schools. Democratic support for charters, once led by the Obama administration, is...

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Senator Robert Byrd Opposes the War in Iraq: 2003

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 11, 2021September 12, 2021

September 11, 2021September 12, 202107

Senator Robert Byrd spoke eloquently against invading Iraq as a response to 9/11. He spoke against the war on March 19, 2003. The speech is...

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What if the U.S. Had Not Invaded Iraq? A Counterfactual Surmise

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 11, 2021September 12, 2021

September 11, 2021September 12, 202106

The Washington Post published a remorseful article about the negative effects of 20 years of was in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hindsight is sometimes useful. Many...

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San Diego: Online Charters Score Near Bottom

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 2, 2021September 3, 2021

September 2, 2021September 3, 202107

Online charters have a history of poor performance: high attrition rates, low graduation rates, low test scores. Will Huntsberry of the Voice of San Diego...

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Jeff Bryant: The End of School “Reform”

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7August 22, 2021August 23, 2021

August 22, 2021August 23, 2021015

Jeff Bryant is a journalist who specializes in education. In a recent issue of The Progressive, he details the many failures of what is falsely...

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Newark: Students Fall Behind During Pandemic in “Reform” Hotspot

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7August 11, 2021August 12, 2021

August 11, 2021August 12, 2021012

Chalkbeat recently wrote about the dismal test scores posted recently by students in Newark, which attempts to show the effects of losing a year of...

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Three Billionaires Combine to Seek a “Breakthrough” in Education, Despite a Long Record of Failures

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7August 4, 2021August 5, 2021

August 4, 2021August 5, 2021017

Matt Barnum of Chalkbeat reported that the Gates Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative are joining forces to fund a “breakthrough”...

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“Bill Gates Should Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need”

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 21, 2021July 22, 2021

July 21, 2021July 22, 2021021

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,...

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Tom Loveless: Why the Common Core Standards Failed

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 15, 2021July 16, 2021

July 15, 2021July 16, 2021016

Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters, interviewed scholar Tom Loveless about the failure of the Common Core on her weekly radio show called...

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Gary Rubenstein: Faking the ASD Story

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 19, 2021June 20, 2021

June 19, 2021June 20, 2021020

Gary Rubenstein has been following the tale of the so-called Achievement School District in Tennessee for a decade. It was started with $100 million of...

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