Liberals and Tea Party Find Common Ground with Common Core
By Karen Wolfe | Originally Published at LA Progressive. March 19, 2014 Few if any political issues have brought together liberals and the tea party to the extent that the Common Core State Standards have. How can something be equally objectionable to political opposites? Tea partiers ideologically […]
New Extremists In The Education Debate
By Jeff Bryant | Education Opportunity Network. March 19, 2014 For people who like to think of themselves as being “exceptional,” Americans can sometimes abandon the very principles their exceptionality is founded on. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the current debate of education policy. A […]
NPR Whitewashes “Grit” Narrative
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. March 17, 2014 Albeit from different ideologies, NPR and Fox News have something really disturbing in common: Bias masked as, to use the Fox slogan, “fair and balanced.” In fact, the breezy tone of NPR […]
