New York Times: Readers Respond to Charter Debate
You may recall that sociologist and author Eve Ewing wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times that said it was time to end...
Category : Inequity
Steve Hinnefeld: Black Legislators in Indiana Were Right to Talk about Race
Veteran blogger Steve Hinnefeld writes about education in Indiana. In this post, he describes a controversy in the Legislature about whether a portion of a...
Biden Administration’s Broken Promise: Schools Must Give Standardized Tests This Spring
The Biden administration chose a pro-testing advocate, Ian Rosenblum of Education Trust New York, to announce the decision that states must administer the federally mandated...
EdTrust and Other Groups Ask Cardona NOT to Allow Testing Waivers
One of the first and most important decisions that Secretary-designate Miguel Cardona will make is whether to grant waivers to the states that want to...
John Thompson on Ta-Nehisi Coates and Bruce Springsteen
John Thompson, historian and retired teacher in Oklahoma, shares ideas about teaching in difficult times. My high school and GED students always loved wrestling with...
Per Kornhall: The Great Swedish Child Experiment: A Failure
Per Kornhall is a widely published Swedish scholar of education. He wrote this post for the blog. Sweden and Chile are the two nations that...
Guiliani Leaves Hospital After Receiving Special Treatment
James Hohmann reports that Guiliani received the same special treatment as Trump and was released from the hospital. Since he recovered so easily, he still...
The Most Important Radical Rightwing Group You Never Heard of
In this post, Bill Moyers conducts an important interview with investigative journalist Anne Nelson, who talks about her new book, SHADOW NETWORK: MEDIA, MONEY, AND...
Commonweal: Stop Using Catholic Schools to Shame Public Schools
There was a time long ago when public schools were thriving, and Catholic schools were also thriving. They were not in competition for students or...
Fred Klonsky: How Illinois’ Flat Tax Cheats Black and Brown Communities
I just sent this to my financial advisor:…………………………We’re No. 28! and DroppingSept. 9, 2020By Nicholas KristofOpinion Columnist A measure of social progress finds that the...