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Education Reform: Unsubstantiated Benefit Claims; Unreported Side Effects

We are in a marketing war for the soul of American education. We are at risk of a radical change in which protecting the rights of the few trumps ensuring the common good and in which democratic participation gives way to private governance. These battles are raging in the open, but the public is observing […]

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Resistance to Attacks on Public Education is Not Enough

The Vergara vs California superior court decision to throw out five state statutes that provide job protections to teachers underscores the persistence, power and wealth behind current education policies. Response from critics has been swift and sharp. However, if we want to defend and improve a democratically-governed public education system that promotes authentic engagement and equity, resistance […]

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Escape From Poverty for a Few More Students Is Not a Worthy National Goal

The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision provided a catalyst to advance but not fully achieve racial and economic justice. Sixty years later, Republicans and Democrats alike continue to talk about race, poverty and education. However, there is a chasm in current education policies between proclamations of intent and real effects. The […]

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Why God Bless the Child That’s Got His Own Is Not a Worthy Education Policy

Them that’s got shall have Them that’s not shall lose So the Bible says and it still is news Mama may have and Papa may have But God bless the child that’s got his own, that’s got his own Who would have imagined that many decades later Republicans and Democrats alike would unwittingly channel verses […]

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Education Reform and the Corrosion of Community Responsibility

Education Reform and the Corrosion of Community Responsibility: The ways in which we think and talk about education are changing — and not for the better. Published on the Washington Post’s education blog, The Answer Sheet, February 26, 2014 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/02/26/education-reform-and-the-corrosion-of-community-responsibility/ Read the full article on this website:  Education reform and the corrosion of community responsibility _ […]

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Key questions begging for answers about school reform

Opponents of currently dominant education policies have a problem that proponents do not.  Proponents, supported by unlimited funds from several well-connected billionaires, have been able to influence local, state and national decision-makers with little open public debate even while many Americans oppose the current set of market-based ideas that are driving dramatic changes in education…. […]

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