Centrist and progressive Democrats can’t stop fighting over how to fix America’s crisis-ridden K-12 schools. Truth is, each side has part of the answer.
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Posted inPodcast
Could New Orleans Be the Model for Fixing Public Schools?
A new documentary by the author of Reinventing Government shows how one of the nation’s worst school districts became the fastest improving.
Posted inEducation
Trump’s Education Tax Credit Gambit
Subsidies for Scholarship Granting Organizations, the latest rage on the right, are being sold as a brilliant innovation to help underprivileged kids. Don’t fall for it.
Posted inMagazine
Tutorize, Don’t Privatize, Public Schools
This article is from a cover package of essays entitled Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself. Find the full series here. The subject of K–12 education barely came up during the 2024 presidential campaign. But it’s likely to be a big issue in Washington soon if, as many observers […]
Posted inEducation, Featured
Betsy DeVos Doesn’t Understand How Markets Really Work
The flaws in her vision of an education marketplace aren’t just a matter of politics—they are a matter of fact.
Posted inPolitical Animal
DeVos Tries to Enlist HBCUs in Her Ideological War
HBCU’s were not ‘pioneers of school choice.’
