In the initial Gilded Age, the courts took the 14th Amendment, tore it up as it applied to African-Americans, and created entirely new and unintended meanings for it as it applied to corporations, sta
Good news from the Chicago Teachers’ Union, who won a continued moratorium on new charter schools in Chicago. Among the many demands on class size, staffing and prep time, one line item in the C
Whether past or present, aggressively or passively, whites have always opposed meaningful integration of schools. Nikole Hannah-Jones’ piece for the Times on busing is a great example of how thi
In the endless discussions about schooling since too many LGM commenters will not admit that their actions in securing the “best” education, housing, and other privileges are part of a whi
The comment thread on yesterday’s school segregation post was the typical combination of white fragility and racism from too many of our liberal commenters, along with some people trying to talk
Yeah sure that’s a George Wallace quote, but when it comes to schools, it’s the feeling of perhaps a majority of white people. This is a particularly gross story from Baton Rouge, but it c
Our tech betters sure are awesome, conning towns into handing over their education systems to them with predictably disastrous results: Eight months earlier, public schools near Wichita had rolled out
The teachers’ strike movement has moved to Oakland, which is receiving surprisingly little media attention compared to all the other recent strikes. Sarah Jones has a good run-down on what it is