Joshua E. Weishart (West Virginia): The Constitutionally Anomalous Right to Education. Margareth Etienne (Illinois): Private School Vouchers and the Failed Promise of Osmosis. Erik Loomis on saving our public schools. Should these tests get a failing grade? School segregation in America is as bad today as it was in the 1960s. Private schools are anti-democratic — can they be redeemed? When Republicans go after children of color, Democrats need to fight back. Computers can solve your problem — you may not like the answer. Lynn Parramore on the corporate plan to groom U.S. kids for servitude by wiping out public schools.
Derek W. Black (South Carolina): The Constitutional Compromise to Guarantee Education (and a response). Joel Mittleman (Princeton): A School-to-Prison Pipeline? Exclusionary Discipline and the Production of Delinquency. Why are schools still judged by the results of standardized tests? Diane Ravitch reviews The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better by Daniel Koretz. We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated — this is how well your district does. The only way to end the class divide: Melissa Benn on the case for abolishing private schools. I can’t believe they still make students recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
Slaves, dinosaurs and white Jesus, oh my: How taxpayers fund crazy Christian conservative education. How wealthy parents keep education unfair: Efforts to make sure one’s kids get the “best” are reproducing harmful inequalities. Alvin Chang on the fraught racial politics of entrance exams for elite high schools. What is education for? The libertarian capitalist vision of childhood is bleak — the Left needs a bright and exciting alternative. Is education a fundamental right? The history of an obscure Supreme Court ruling sheds light on the ongoing debate over schooling and immigration. Scholastic’s pro-Trump propaganda for kids enrages teachers and parents.
Betsy DeVos knows little about public education — and she doesn’t want to learn. Whose side are Asian-Americans on? A proposal to integrate New York City’s top public high schools would be a boon to black and Latinx students — and a disaster for Asians. What LeBron can prove about public education.
