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Jack Jennings’s new book, Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools: The Politics of Education Reform
Jack Jennings’s new book, Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools: The Politics of Education Reform, is available at Powell's Books, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and the publisher, Harvard Education Press.
Reducing Student Debt: An Expert’s View
A cultural shift from “publish or perish” to “educate students well.”
An American Innovation and a Caution
Boldness needs to be matched by prudence.
A Good Idea That Will Again Fail
Unfortunately, equitable funding is not going to happen.
Fifty Years of Federal Aid to Schools: excerpts
Fifty Years of Federal Aid to Schools: Back into the Future? Jack Jennings* Excerpts from an article appearing in Volume 3 Education Law & Policy Review 2016 In 1965, the federal government began to provide major financial aid for education to states and local...
Politics from Both Sides Hampering Public Education
Public schools would be better if two major obstacles were removed. Teachers’ unions have injected too much partisanship into schooling, and conservatives have undercut the promise of a good education for all students. These two issues are interconnected. The more the...
Who’s Responsible for Student Indebtedness?
“College costs too much!” “My college loans are killing me!” The candidates for the presidency are hearing these complaints as they race around the country. Affordability of a college education is among the few education issues to attract attention in this election...
From Complaining to Helping
Higher education has a bone to pick with public schools. Too many high school graduates entering colleges and universities are not prepared for post-secondary education. That complaint is true enough, but the missing element is that lower education cannot improve...
A Strong Voice from the Classroom
John Thompson is a truth-teller. A Teacher’s Tale, his new book, honestly addresses the toughest issue in American education—how to improve urban schools impacted by concentrations of poor children. Thompson worked in higher education and then did legislative lobbying...
Will Education Flourish After NCLB’s Repeal?
No other federal law has generated more hostility from teachers and other educators than the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). That statute has been denounced for causing too much testing of school children, making teachers “teach to the test” to avoid penalties, and...
Career/Technical Education Helping Highschoolers
The U.S. has a cookie-cutter approach to secondary education: Stay in school; go to college; and we’ll be happy. Those who don’t go along are considered “victims.” They must be helped to see the benefits of college. This is the judgement of...
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