Tag: education

This group of senators now wants DeVos to answer detailed questions about her contacts with the Heartland Institute.

The irony is obvious - taking money from the taxpaying public to destroy a vital public institution that, unlike charter schools, must take all comers.

Our collective choice will have significant consequences for our children and the future of this country.

Students of higher education are joining together to stand up against U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and President Donald Trump.

Schools in low-income communities in many states don’t have the resources to give students access to opportunities that are available in wealthier areas.

The American education system is “a system of social control.”

Betsy DeVos is the face of corporate reform, displaying in stark, unlovely form the processes that have been eating away at public education since the beginning of this century.

Faced with two utterly misguided directions for education policy, some argue for a “centrist solution,” as if meeting in the middle of two bad ideas can somehow produce something good.

The keys to authentic education have always been interest and ability and when these are absent so too is authentic learning.

At best international rankings are a distraction – but basing policies on the rankings while ignoring the more important evidence these international surveys present is unlikely to address the key issue of inequity in our system.