Wow, it’s almost as if privatizing public education leads to bad outcomes for less than ideal students (at least from the perspective of the charter industry). The Arkansas state legislatureR
But I mean, don’t we owe it to little Maddie and Connor to send them to the best schools? Following Brown v. Board, schools across the country began integrating with various levels of success. G
Molly Worthen is one of our top historians of religion and a frequent writer on the contemporary state of higher education. She has an excellent Times op-ed about how the pandemic has shown the absolu
This is disturbing, though not really surprising I suppose. For years, Big Oil has cozied up to American public schools—and now they seem to be cashing in their chips. New emails appear to show that
This is a somewhat interesting film about children in the early years of the Cultural Revolution. One can say it is propaganda; it probably actually isn’t since it’s not a Chinese governme
The Manhattan Institute is a hive of scum and villainy almost like no other. And there’s nothing our “free market” betters love more than hating on teachers unions. So therefore you
Other than COVID robbing me of most of a baseball season where I am enjoying my best fantasy team ever, this has to be the most horrifying side effect of the pandemic: It appears that COVID has foreve
What COVID is doing with education, both K-12 and higher ed, is bringing neoliberalism’s chickens home to roost. Decades of decreasing state investment, the encouragement of private fundraising