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The Tenure Conundrum
AP Photo/Gerry BroomeAP Photo/Gerry Broome Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker delivers remarks during the North Carolina Republican Party convention in Raleigh, Friday, June 5, 2015. This article...
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Real Diversity Is About Confronting Power
AP Photo/Elise Amendola, FileAP Photo/Elise Amendola, File A tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University. I n 1973, my father emigrated from India to New York City with an engineering...
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What Would a Sanders Administration Do on K-12 Education?
Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP ImagesPhoto By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Images Senator Bernie Sanders attends a news conference on May 19, 2015, with members of the National Nurses...
View ArticleWhen Charters Go Union
This article appears in the Summer 2015 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.
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Sorry, Walmart: Charter Schools Won't Fix Poverty
(Photo: Mike Mozart/Creative Commons)L ast week, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and In the Public Interest released a highly critical report on the Walton Family Foundation’s K-12 education...
View ArticleWhen Adjuncts Go Union
This article appears in the Summer 2015 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.By now, Tiffany Kraft imagined she would be fully immersed in academia, putting her Ph.D. and passion for...
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Columbia University Was Invested in Incarceration—Until Students Stopped It
AP Photo/Ted S. WarrenAP Photo/Ted S. Warren In this photo taken on Friday, Oct. 17, 2008 detainees are shown inside a holding cell at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washashington, a...
View ArticleWill Students Soon Be Tested for 'Grit'?
The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)—nicknamed “the Nation’s Report Card”—is the largest nationally representative assessment that tests what American students know and can do in...
View ArticleNEA Members Announce They Will Fight Institutional Racism. Do They Mean It?
At the National Education Association’s recently concluded annual meeting—a gathering where the country’s largest labor union sets its policy priorities for the coming year—delegates passed...
View ArticleAffirmative Action is Headed to the Supreme Court. Here's Why We Still Need It
On June 29th, the Supreme Court announced that it would rehear Fisher v. Texas, a case where a white woman claims she was denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin because of her race. In...
View ArticleHow Will Campbell Brown's '74' Cover Education?
Today marked the launch of The 74, an education-focused news organization created by former CNN host Campbell Brown. (The title refers to the 74 million school-age children in the U.S.)The education...
View ArticleMore on Charters Going Union
For The Prospect’s summer issue I wrote a feature story about the growing number of charter school teachers looking to form unions at their schools. Elias Isquith, a staff writer at Salon was kind...
View ArticleIn Latest Adjunct Organizing Victory, Barnard Faculty Plan to Unionize
More than 230 contingent faculty members at Barnard College will be able to vote to form a union with the United Auto Workers Local 2110 this September, according to an announcement today. Last month,...
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Betrayers of the Dream
AP Photo/Eric Risberg, FileAP Photo/Eric Risberg, File In this October 10, 2013 file photo, California Attorney General Kamala Harris gestures while standing by a display showing an internal document...
View ArticleOhio Charter Teachers Fired for Organizing Will Be Reinstated
Teachers at the Ohio-based I CAN charter network decided to organize a union during the 2013-2014 school year. Yet when the school year ended, the administration did not renew contracts for seven...
View ArticleNLRB Rules Teach for America Members Have a Right to Unionize
In another interesting development for the movement to unionize charter schools, the National Labor Relations Board ruled last week that Teach for America corps members should have been allowed to vote...
View ArticleUsing Tech to Improve Government
In the modern digital era, a growing number of individuals and organizations are trying to figure out how to harness technology to improve democracy. I have written previously about the Personal...
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Unionized Charter Teachers in Chicago Reject Merit Pay
Last week, unionized teachers at three schools operated by Civitas—a subsidiary of the Chicago International Charter School network—negotiated a new contract that no longer has merit pay in it. This...
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Obama's Mixed Record on School Integration
AP Photo/Evan VucciAP Photo/Evan Vucci President Barack Obama, accompanied by Education Arne Duncan, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 29, 2015, during an...
View ArticleThere's Plenty of Evidence on the Value of School Integration
I read an exchange on Twitter yesterday between Maggie Severns, an education reporter at Politico, and CJ Libassi, a researcher at the Education Policy Initiative, an organization committed to...
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