David Sessions, The Rise of the Thought Leader-How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual. Rev. of Daniel Drezner, . “Only 35 percent of wealthy Americans support spending what is necessary to ensure good public schools,” Drezner notes, “a sharp contrast to 87-percent support from the general public.” The wealthy also support cuts to government spending and social programs much more strongly than the rest of the public—which fits with their compulsion to spend millions on trying to buy academic legitimacy for unregulated capitalism…..Surveying this new landscape, it is clear that the true role of the thought leader is to serve as the organic intellectual of the one percent—the figure who, as Gramsci put it, gives the emerging class “an awareness of its own function” in society…..Bad times, historically speaking, are good for ideas, and our moment is no exception. We’re arguably living in a new golden age of little magazines: Not only have publications like n+1, Jacobin, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Current Affairs appeared in recent years, but older ones like The Baffler and Dissent have been resurrected or revitalized.” read
portside.org, In Defense of the Campus: Why the Left Must Not Write Off Universities read read
Fred Edwords, Why Religious Education Is Needed in Public Schools read
Jake Johnson, Will These Studies Finally Make Betsy DeVos Admit School Vouchers Are a Total Scam? read
Tom Jacobs, Middle School Ethnic Diversity Benefits All Students read
Lawrence Smith, Gov. Matt Bevin publicly signs bill allowing Kentucky’s public schools to teach the Bible read
Jake Murray, Elite public schools that rely on entry exams fail the diversity test read
Chris Quintana, Under Fire, These Professors Were Criticized by Their Colleges read
Elizabeth Reiner Platt, What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment read
In Rural America, We Need Sex Ed Along With Accessible Reproductive Health Care read
Scott O Lilienfeld, Microaggressions? read
Kaya Oakes, Union Busting for God: Catholic Colleges Invoke “Religious Freedom” to Violate Catholic Teaching read
Ellison Barber, Supreme Court ruling emboldens school-choice advocates read
Sarah Brown, chronicle.com, As Illinois Budget Impasse Ends, So Does a ‘Nightmare of Total Uncertainty’ for Its Public Colleges read
Jeff Bryant, Why Democrats Should Unite On A Charter School Moratorium read
Michael Stratford, 18 states sue Betsy DeVos over delay of student loan protections
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Steven Ward, A Field Guide to American Higher-Ed Reformers (2015) read
30 years after Edwards v. Aguillard: Here’s why creationism still lingers in America’s public schools read
Evan R. Goldstein, The Gadfly. Jonathan Haidt on colleges and faculties read
David Edwards, White House confirms Jerry Falwell Jr. will participate in task force on education reform read
Kevin Arnold , Possibilities : The epigenetics revolution // Grit in middle school // Science in the madrasa
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Rachel Cohen, The Untold History of Charter Schools read
Diane Rado, National education group recommends religious studies in K-12 public schools read
Dwyer Gunn, Seceding School Districts Leave Vulnerable Kids Behind read
Jeff Schuhrke, Charter School Educators Just Voted to Join the Most Militant Teachers’ Union in the Country read
Karen Wolfe, Was the Most Expensive School Board Race in U.S. History Really All About the Money? read
Diane Ravitch, The Demolition of American Education read
Richard Oxman, Educators Serving The Powers That Be: Results of a Recent Survey read
Steven Rosenfeld, Perverse Law in 9 States Enriches Donors to Private Schools: Trump Could Be on the Verge of Taking It National read
Zack Ford, Betsy DeVos abandons LGBTQ students, won’t protect them from discrimination read
Scott Jaschik,Humanities Majors Drop read
Free Speech on Campus: A Critical Analysis read
From Online Testing to Online Learning read
Natasha Singer, The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools read
Report: The Failure of Policy Planning in California’s Charter School Facility Funding read
Organizing Against The Trump/DeVos Mis-Education Agenda read
dianeravitch, A Visit to the Offices of SBAC read
dianeravitch,, Laura Chapman: California Loves Waste, Fraud, and Financial Abuse So Long as the Money Goes to Charters read
Emma Brown, DeVos praises this voucher-like program. Here’s what it means for school reform. read
Robert G. Natelson, How the travel ban ruling could change public education read
Joseph Batory, The Betrayal of Pennsylvania’s Public Schools read
Miles Kampf-Lassin, Education Rahm Emanuel should drop his absurd CPS graduation scheme and fund public education read
Ira David Socol, What “Instructional Tolerance” means and why it matters read
LeBrun: Charter schools a costly distraction read
Bridging the Divide: Within Integrated Schools, De Facto Segregation Persists read
Why a Right-Wing Think Tank is Trying to Destroy the Indian Child Welfare Act read
Tax Credit Scholarships: “Neovoucher” Profiteering Disguised as Philanthropy read
Robbie Feinberg, Rural Maine districts worry as Trump aims to beef up ‘school choice’ read
Russ Walsh, Defending Public Education from Trump’s Tyranny read