If you're trying to understand the WHY behind the effort to dismantle public education (and most importantly, how to fight back) I hope you'll preorder our new book The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual. Out this summer! a.co/d/87Dm9j1

Recommended weekend listening: the backlash against *equity* is just getting started. In the latest Have You Heard we hear from parents & advocates in 6 states about why special education is so vulnerable on.soundcloud.com/ArERRkkwoGM71V…

One of a number of recommendations that we make in Accountability 3.0: nepc.colorado.edu/publication/re…

This is exactly what Jack Schneider & I warned about earlier this year in The Nation. A reckoning is about to happen in all of the states that are now spending big $$ on private school voucher programs thenation.com/article/societ…

Why do we see so much 'faddish' reform, and simultaneously see so little change in the instructional core? This (older) piece by Brian Rowan is really an amazing answer to the question: link.springer.com/article/10.102…

Why don't we allocate education the way we allocate other goods in a capitalist society? Because sometimes markets fail. And sometimes such failures are intolerable. We explore on the latest Have You Heard.
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“A history of the nation’s cultural conflicts over public education and a call to action in our current one. . . . Readers will come away inspired and, hopefully, energized.” -Kirkus Reviews on THE EDUCATION WARS by Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider! ow.ly/v6oI50R5UmC

'Our findings about schooling in truly disadvantaged communities offer a sobering antidote to a
heady political rhetoric of 'beating the odds' and
'no excuses.''
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Since 1975, students with disabilities have been guaranteed a free and appropriate education. Now, half a century later, privatization efforts are threatening to roll-back their rights. The latest Have You Heard:
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New Have You Heard The backlash against equity and inclusion is coming for special education on.soundcloud.com/XdAxU8dd5cj6up…

And no, you don’t need to be all three.

Free copies of The Education Wars if...

a) You teach a course on education policy/politics
b) You're organizing people in defense of public ed
c) You're a journalist covering culture war in schools

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I wrote about how the age-old bipartisan obsession w/ getting rid of bad teachers (and their unions) is hampering our ability to do anything meaningful about teacher shortages or the teacher morale crisis. Insights from Jess Piper and Justin Parmenter thebaffler.com/outbursts/naug…

I sat down with Doug Selwyn to have a conversation about assessment: recorder.com/doug-selwyn-ma…

Forthcoming episode of Have You Heard: “Jack was right.”