Education Reform

Robert Reich: Six prerequisites for learning about one's duties to society

Protesters from outside of Lowell come to school board meetings and hurl allegations at board members, including now-familiar accusations of “liberal agendas.”

It’s time for Biden to do the right thing. Every day it’s more obvious that having 46 million people drowning in $1.8 trillion of student debt isn’t sustainable.

If more students whose educations were disrupted by the pandemic can get to and finish college, California as a whole will be better off with the new graduates.

Oakland seems uniquely at the forefront of difficult policy questions. Are districts that are adopting the community schools model, like California and Maryland, paying attention?

Executive action to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt would increase Black wealth by 40 percent.

You probably won’t be surprised to know that public schools have been in perpetual crisis for a long time.

Poverty has increased in LAUSD post-covid. And in two board districts the late Eli Broad’s plan to transfer half of LAUSD into “charter school seats” is nearly fulfilled.

Members of the Coalition of Student Leaders note the increase in political activism and awareness of public education as a key highlight of the strike.

What if parents are so beaten down and exhausted by living through the Pandemic that they want to avoid any additional source of stress on their children and families.

Ever since the Pandemic hit, I can never be sure which of my students will show up in class, and what condition they are in if they do.

Accel’s management of its schools is entirely intentional. Brady expects that the schools, should they continue to show poor performance, may get into trouble, and state smack downs.

Digital products that monitor students’ online behavior raise concerns about how companies use that data for profit.

Michael Hertz: Finland’s system borrows the best from both capitalism and socialism.   The government pays from the tax system, and the people get the same education, whether rich or poor.

david ketchum: My experience of history in public schools was largely negative, with a few bright points that had more to do with the idiosyncrasies of our teachers than any fascination with the content.

Paul F. deLespinasse: Employers sometimes use the degree requirement to avoid the bother and expense of evaluating too many individuals on their own merits.

Johnny Townsend: Repression always leads to more repression. If the genuinely worried parents clamoring for censorship had read these books, they’d know that.

Belle Chessler: The effects of two years of pandemic schooling, both virtual and in-person, have taken their toll on all of us: students, parents, and teachers alike.