Chris Rickert didn’t even deign to mention them by name, but he couldn’t refute their facts.read more

Each of us has our mentors, the individuals who showed us at an early age not only a different way of seeing the world, but a different way of being in the world. I found my mentor at the Teton Science School in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. His name was Ted Major. He was the first Democrat I had ever met. I was eighteen years old.

Today, Ted is ninety-one years old, and still as contemporary as anyone I know. He tends his fruit trees in Victor, Idaho, with his wife, Joan, of more than sixty years, and four generations of Majors living on their homestead. I am still learning from him.read more

“White politicians are trying to recolonize the minds of young people in the state of Arizona.”read more

By banning Mexican American Studies, the Tucson Unified School District taught the students an object lesson in cowardice and racism and censorship.read more

This local alliance of corporate executives, libertarian politicians and “educational entrepreneurs” is all about business.read more

This is a tragic story that pits well-intentioned community members against one another in a battle for ever-diminishing public resources.read more

Low-performing choice and charter schools would not be subject to the potential sanctions levied on their public school counterparts.read more

Making college affordable is the best investment in our country’s economic and political future. And it’s the honorable thing to do for strapped students and families.read more

Democratic assembly member Mark Pocan, filibustering, said: “Stand up and explain why you think bigotry in the year 2011 makes sense!”read more

Sooner or later we are going to have to drop the heroic, individual approach and work together.read more

How do you talk about building trust with someone whose boot is still firmly planted on your neck?read more

After using the media frequently and deftly over the past year to promote this project, the chief proponent of the charter school said no members of the media were allowed at the meeting.read more

Americans will rise and fall together based on whether all of our children are learning. Right now, they are not. And we can’t tolerate this any longer.read more

“My biggest fear is that this is just more in the process of getting rid of public education completely.”read more