Jack Schneider

Jack Schneider is an associate professor of education at the University of Massachusetts–Lowell and the director of research for the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which is A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door. Along with journalist Jennifer C. Berkshire, he is the cohost of the education policy podcast Have You Heard.

PoliticsMarch 16, 2023

Why Is the Republican Party Suddenly Weakening Child Labor Laws?

Rolling back restrictions on child labor and dismantling public education will make the country far more unequal. For today’s GOP, that’s a feature, not a bug.

Jack Schneider and Jennifer C. Berkshire
ClassFebruary 13, 2023

Robbing From the Poor to Educate the Rich

The bait of school vouchers—and the switch to strangling public education.

Jack Schneider and Jennifer C. Berkshire
Public SchoolsSeptember 20, 2022

It Isn’t Populist to Defund Rural Schools

The Republican Party has won rural America by fanning the flames of the culture war. But by taking a match to public schools, it may have finally gone too far.

Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider
SocietyJune 15, 2021

What’s Joe Biden’s Plan for Education?

Rather than forge a new path, so far Biden has simply dusted off the tired playbook employed by centrist administrations from George H.W. Bush to Barack Obama.

Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider
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