Tag: public schools

“We Now Have an Opportunity to Change Education:” A Follow-Up Discussion with MDRC’s K-12 Education Policy Director William Corrin Regarding American Public Education After the Pandemic

By Elizabeth Nelson

In General

On July 14, 2021

As an individual who has spent the past two decades working in the field of education policy, I know too well how diabolical and difficult a problem it is to provide equal access to students nationwide through our criminally under-resourced public school system. But I don’t know it as well as William Corrin, Director of […]

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“We Have To Remember That Schools Serve a Variety of Functions Beyond Academic Education”: A Discussion With MDRC’S K-12 Education Policy Director William Corrin Regarding the Daunting New Realities of American Public Education

By Elizabeth Nelson

On June 29, 2020

As director of K-12 education policy at MDRC, the venerable New York City-based non-profit public policy research organization, William Corrin is responsible for overseeing the execution of many natio

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Saving Our Public Schools

By Erik Loomis

On May 10, 2018

So I put together a little article connecting the teachers’ strikes and the recent resurgence of anti-charter school activism. I submitted it to a couple of places but didn’t get it accept

DeVos

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 7, 2017

Betsy DeVos confirmed. It’s a loss and I think it’s pretty clear that McConnell gave permission to Murkowski and Collins to vote no while knowing that he wouldn’t lose anyone else in the caucus. But it’s an expected loss and it has severely discredited her and the fascist administration that she represents so well. What […]