It seems that sketchy bond trading from Rahm Emanuel is at the roots of the Chicago school funding problems: Over a billion dollars of taxpayer money will be diverted from Chicago’s school child
A lawsuit in Minnesota claims they are, effectively arguing that their existence is discriminatory to children of color, even when the charters specifically target those students. Alex Cruz-Guzman, wh
Kids in Dallas are staging walkouts over the terrible conditions of their schools. About 250 students at South Oak Cliff High School walked out Monday to protest leaky roofs, unbearably hot or cold cl
I am not in the habit of reviewing older books I read. But I recently read Matthew Lassiter’s 2006 book, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. Lassiter strongly questions
I should surprise no readers by noting that racial injustice is so deep in our institutions that it infects nearly every part of American life. The definition of structural racism is that inequality g
Above: An opportunity for wealthy white men to promote their careers through “leadership” Scott Cowen is the former president of Tulane University. He wrote a book on Hurricane Katrina and
Henry Farrell is speaking some truth here about the textbook scam. I teach international relations at a university where political science is the most popular major. As well as teaching intensive semi
Over the last several years, battles over history textbooks have occasionally come up in the American media, with conservatives freaking out the new AP U.S. History standards that don’t explicit