Paul Waldman: Republicans Are Vilifying America’s Schools. When Will Democrats Fight Back?
Paul Waldman is an opinion columnist for The Washington Post. In this article, he criticizes Democrats for failing to stand up to Republican slanders and...
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Adam Laats: The Conservative Attack on Education That Failed a Century Ago
Adam Laats is a historian of education at the State University of New York in Binghamton. He has written extensively on religion and education, including...
Ohio: Public Schools Outperform Charter Schools Again
Bill Phillis, retired deputy commissioner of education in Ohio, is a staunch advocate for the state system of common schools, which is guaranteed in the...
Dan Greenberg: How Teachers in My Ohio Community Beat Back the Attack on Our School Board
Dan Greenberg is a teacher in Ohio and a member of the board of the Network for Public Education. He teaches high school English in...
Parent: How I Was Scammed by a Charter School’s False Promises
Katherine Kozioziemski tells the sad story of her bad experience with a charter school that promised the moon, but turned into a grand financial scam....
Alabama: Politicians Win, Educators Lose
Larry Lee, a close follower of education politics in Alabama and former board member in Montgomery, writes here about an ill-informed decision by Governor Kay...
Andrea Gabor: How Big Philanthropy Captured Media Coverage of Their Education Investments
Andrea Gabor is the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch College, which is part of the City University of New York. Gabor has written...
Jeanne Kaplan: The Battle Against Deformers in Denver is Always Uphill
Jeanne Kaplan is a veteran civil rights activist who was elected to serve two terms on the Denver school board. She has been active in...
Bob Braun Explains the Opposition to Billionaire-Funded “Reform”
Bob Braun was an education reporter for 50 years. After he retired from the New Jersey Star-Ledger, he began blogging and paid close and critical...
West Virginia: The Great Charter School Swindle
State Senator Mike Romano of West Virginia wrote an article about the hoax of charter schools, which will cost the state’s public schools hundreds of...