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Keep the Promise to Our Children (Bush Administration, Education Policy, Politics, Society)

The largest mobilization ever for public schools has one simple demand.

Robert L. Borosage
Schwarzenegger's Education Failures (Education Policy, Political Figures, States, Politics, Society)

The Governor is setting two dangerous precedents for education in California.

Shane Paul Goldmacher
No Politician Left Behind (Education, Education Policy, Society)

Education is always about politics--in the best and worst senses.

Deborah Meier
What's Good Enough? (Education, Education Policy, Poverty, Society)

Advocates are demanding not just equal but decent schools for all children.

Peter Schrag
Not Just a Test (Racism and Discrimination, Education, Education Policy, Society)

Why we must rethink the paradigm we use for judging human ability.

Claude M. Steele
The Heat of Summerton (Racism and Discrimination, Education Policy, States, Politics, Society)

Racial tensions still simmer in the rural county where Brown was born.

Alan Richard
The Long Road to Equality (Racism and Discrimination, Education Policy, Law, The Courts, Society)

The product of black legal skill and strategy, Brown has a black copyright.

Robert L. Carter
It Could Have Gone the Other Way (Racism and Discrimination, Education Policy, Law, The Courts, Society)

At the time, the Justices had doubts that Brown was rightly decided.

Michael J. Klarman
Beyond Black, White and Brown (Racism and Discrimination, Education Policy, Law, Society)

Click here to read Brown at 50 by Eric Foner and Randall Kennedy.

Various Contributors
Brown at 50 (Racism and Discrimination, Education Policy, Law, Society)

Prior
to the landmark Supreme Court rulings in Brown v. Board of
Education and Bolling v.

Randall Kennedy and Eric Foner

Blogs

'We Are Not a Failing School!'
Rick Perlstein

A school-closing hearing in Chicago becomes a test of whether corporate-driven school "reform" can be responsive and humane.

April 16, 2013
A New Chicago Freedom Ride
Rick Perlstein

Past shuttered schools and glass-strewn vacant lots, the Chicago Teachers Union documents the likely toll of Rahm Emanuel's latest disastrous education plan.

April 5, 2013
Educator Who Challenged Scott Walker's Vouchers Agenda Wins 61-39 in Wisconsin
John Nichols

The Superintendent of Public Instruction, who campaigned as an advocate for public education, was reelected with the message, "We can and must meet our constitutional obligation to invest in all of our kids.”

April 3, 2013
The Pitfalls of Testing-Based Education
Christopher Hayes

As 35 Atlanta educators are investigated for fudging standardized test scores, the bigger issue is the high-stakes testing that's taken over our education system.

April 2, 2013
A 'Stark Choice' Election on the Future of Public Education
John Nichols

Wisconsin's state Superintendent of Public Instruction runs for reelection as a critic of Scott Walker's attacks on teacher unions, funding cuts and vouchers proposals.

April 1, 2013
Shocking Rahm's Shock Doctrine
Rick Perlstein

Mayor Emanuel’s flash school-closing announcement is meeting civil disobeidence from Chicago teachers—who are having no trouble poking gaping holes in every one of the city’s arguments.

March 29, 2013
Nothing New Under the Wingnut Sun: A Coming Preschool Backlash?
Rick Perlstein

In his State of the Union, Obama naively proposed universal preschool as a conservative idea. Conservatives will not agree.

February 14, 2013
Nothing New Under the Wingnut Sun: 'Textbook Wars'
Rick Perlstein

When conservatives challenge curricula like they did last week in Fairfax County, Virginia, they reveal fundamental tensions in liberal education that aren’t going away.

February 11, 2013
E-Mails Show Jeb Bush Foundation Lobbied For Businesses, Including One Tied To Bush
Lee Fang

Newly released e-mails show the former governor's foundation quietly promoted his corporate partners, including a company he's invested in. 

January 30, 2013
Romney-Ryan Prep School Fantasies: Wrong About Teachers... and Parents
John Nichols

66 percent of Chicago parents back teachers and their union, while Romney-Ryan back wrongheaded Rahm Emmanel—and the fantasy that parents don't like public education.

September 13, 2012
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