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The Miseducation of Mitt Romney
Mario Tama/Getty ImagesRepublican candidate Mitt Romney participating in a 6th grade class at Universal Bluford Charter School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 24, 2012. On May 23, the Romney campaign...
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Education and ‘National Security’: An Exchange
Copyright ©1962 by Maurice Sendak, renewed 1990 by Maurice Sendak‘H: having headaches’; drawing by Maurice Sendak for Alligators All Around, from his Nutshell Library, 1962 To the Editors: In the June...
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Two Visions for Chicago’s Schools
M. Spencer Green/AP ImagesRahm Emanuel at a temporary day care during the Chicago teachers strike, September 10, 2012 According to most news reports, the teachers in Chicago are striking because they...
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Holding Education Hostage
Grandville For weeks, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the United Federation of Teachers have been battling over the issue of teacher evaluation. Governor Andrew Cuomo set a deadline for them...
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New York Schools: The Roar of the Charters
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Making Schools Poor
Ben Margot/AP PhotoA first-grade class of thirty children at the Willow Glen Elementary School in San Jose, California, where budget cuts have led to larger class sizes, January 24, 2013 Last week,...
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The Lost Purpose of School Reform
Bruce Davidson/Magnum PhotosOne-room schoolhouse near Selma, Alabama, 1965 Fifty years ago, Congress passed a federal education law to help poor children get a good public education: the Elementary and...
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Solving the Mystery of the Schools
Gary He for FacebookCory Booker, then mayor of Newark, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with eleventh-grade math students at the KIPP Newark Collegiate Academy, a charter school, September 2010 In...
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When Public Goes Private, as Trump Wants: What Happens?
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The Demolition of American Education
Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at the White House, April 26, 2017 Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos’s proposed budget for the US Department of Education...
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Big Money Rules
Jill Freedman/Steven Kasher GalleryThe Poor People’s Campaign, Washington, D.C., spring 1968; photograph by Jill Freedman from her book Resurrection City, 1968, just published by Damiani. An exhibition...
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How Trump Politicized Schools Reopening, Regardless of Safety
Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesSecretary of Education Betsy DeVos attending President Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force daily briefing, Washington, D.C., March 27, 2020 One of the most difficult issues of the...
View ArticleThe Dark History of School Choice
During her tenure as secretary of education, Betsy DeVos repeatedly asked Congress to allocate billions of dollars for vouchers for religious and private schools. She was repeatedly rebuffed. Even...
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