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Why Accountants Should Not Run Schools

By Jeff Bryant
January 12, 2012

There's a reason why accountants traditionally wore green eyeshades. In their "vision-intensive, detail-oriented" work, they were prone to "eyestrain" caused by scrupulous attention to columns and rows of numbers on a ledger. Now, of course, the strain is lessened by the softer glow of a computer screen. more »

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Is Segregation The New "School Choice"?

By Jeff Bryant
January 5, 2012

I remember the day that the poor kids showed up at our school. It was in 1964.

Classes had already started, and I was in second grade, surrounded by my familiar friends from my mostly white, mostly well-to-do, suburban neighborhood in North Dallas. more »

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Back To School: NCLB Waivers -- Relief For Schools, Or More Of The Same?

By Jeff Bryant
September 8, 2011

My guest today is Rob Levine. Rob is the founder of Cursor.org and Mediatransparency.org. He blogs about education issues and other topics at his personal blog thecuckingstool.blogspot.com. more »

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Today's Big Idea To Get America Working: Invest In Public Education

By Jeff Bryant
August 17, 2011

I don't think anyone has ever even tried to make the argument that education and jobs are not in any way linked. Big Ideas to Get America Working But the economic argument for education is not well understood even by those -- politicians especially -- who are most apt to make the connection.

So before we demand that political and civic leaders at all levels turn around our troubled economy by increasing investment in public education, we need to get the framing right. You can't blame the bad economy on education. But you can blame education cuts for a bad economy. (Part III of a series.)

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Goodbye, Good Riddance To Education Bipartisanship

By Jeff Bryant
June 30, 2011

Earlier this week, when a representative of the Beltway-based Democrats for Education Reform lamented the outcomes in Wisconsin's recently concluded "budget, battle royale," what do you think she thought was "the worst part?" Not the rollout of more »

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Don't Kill Schools To Keep War Alive

By Isaiah J. Poole
May 24, 2010

The Senate is starting debate this week on a $60 billion supplemental spending bill that includes additional money for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as money for disaster relief and some other spending choices. more »

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Conservative Assault On Public Schools Gets Schooled Again

By Isaiah J. Poole
May 3, 2010

In June 2008, former Maryland Gov. more »

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Taking Pride In Being Ignorant

By Brian Dockstader
September 3, 2009

Well the reviews are already in on Obama's big speech on "the importance of education", and they aren't pretty. The descriptions range from "brainwashing" and "indoctrination of your children" to accusations that Obama's speech shows that he is actually Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, and of course, a terrorist. more »

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Quality Schools, Not School Vouchers

August 22nd, 2008

It’s back-to-school time. In conservative politics, that means it’s time to pull out their tired old ideological war-horse, school vouchers. But vouchers represent a cut-and-run strategy in public education and Americans have never liked them: voters have rejected every voucher and tuition tax credit referendum proposed in the past 30 years. Progressives need to speak up for quality schools, not school vouchers.

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-95% of Americans believe smaller class sizes would be effective in attracting and retaining teachers, and 87% believe higher salaries for beginning teachers would accomplish the same. (Gallup, September 2007)

Source
“The 39th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward The Public Schools,” Lowell C. Rose & Alec M. Gallup, September 2007. http://www.pdkmembers.org/members_online/publications/e-GALLUP/kpoll_pdfs/pdkpoll39_2007.pdf.
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