Democratic Party’s Divide On Education Policy Gets Worse
Political pundits who try to tamp down talk of divisions within the Democratic Party must not be paying any attention to education policy. For quite some time, close observers of the nation’s education policy have been calling attention to the fault lines between education progressives in the Democratic Party and Third Way-style centrists, such as […]
The Cost Of Leaving Educators Off The Education Agenda
This act is wearing thin. As implementations of Common Core State Standards falter around the country, supporters of the new academic benchmarks continue a sort of dog and pony show to reinforce the message to “stay the course.” The latest such example came from the Center for American Progress who staged a panel recently on […]
Will Anyone Stop Charter School Corruption?
When politicians and pundits take to the barricades to defend “wonderful charter schools,” is this what they’re thinking of? A recent article in a Minnesota newspaper reported about a change in state law that could imperil the existence of a charter school that serves a student body sorely in need of heroic efforts. According to […]
