Here’s the Truth Behind the Right-Wing Attacks on Critical Race Theory
When North Carolina public school teacher Justin Parmenter penned an opinion piece for the...
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Author: Jeff Bryant
A Florida School Improved Reading and Math Scores With Streetlights—And Joe Biden Is All For It
“What I’m working on—like making sure students have access to food, clean clothing, and...
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How the Federal Government’s Charter School Program Went Wrong
From the outset, charter schools were somewhat of a blind man’s elephant—people saw in them...
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Florina Rodov: Charter Schools Should Get Zero Federal Dollars
The U.S. Department of Education’s Charter School Program (CSP) wasted more than a billion dollars...
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Jeff Bryant on America’s Workforce Radio: “Charter schools are often nonprofit in name only.”
Charter school management companies can make huge profits off operating nonprofit charter schools....
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Biden Promised to End Standardized Testing in Schools—It Was Never Going to Be Easy
Barely a month after President Biden was inaugurated, educators and public school advocates reeled...
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Florina Rodov: I Believed the Charter School Myth—Until I Learned About the Reality and Who Was Behind It
I fell for the charter school hype. I agreed with former President Obama’s education...
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For-Profit Charter Schools Gone Wild—Proof That Greed and Education Don’t Mix
A new report by the Network for Public Education (NPE) explains why charter schools are often...
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Jeff Bryant in German News Weekly Die Zeit: The fixation on testing is deeply anchored in education officials in Washington DC
In an interview with Die Zeit’s United States correspondent Heike Buchter, Jeff Bryant...
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Jeff Bryant on The Attitude: “Betsy Devos Is the Tip of the Iceberg in the School Privatization Agenda”
Jeff Bryant on the New Hampshire-based radio show The Attitude hosted by Arnie Arnesen explains...
Read More Betsy DeVos Is Out — But Her Right-Wing Agenda Lives On
Supporters of public education and school teachers were relieved to see Betsy DeVos leave her job...
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We Need a Democratic Approach to Reimagining Schools—Asking People, Not Billionaires and Ideologues, What They Want
As soon as Anna Grant’s busy workday at Forest View Elementary School in Durham, North Carolina,...
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Michael Mindzak: Teacher-Volunteers: Unpaid Labor a Symptom of Precarious Work
As we continue to contend with the various challenges surrounding COVID-19 one interesting result...
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Joe Biden Has a Golden Opportunity to Strengthen Public Education
In picking Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona to be his nominee for U.S....
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Sarah Lahm: Charter Schools Movement Sees a Growth Opportunity in Public School Funding Cuts
A promotional message on the website of the Minnesota Math and Science Academy (MMSA), a K-12...
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