Cara Fitzpatrick

New York

Editor @Chalkbeat. Author of “The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America.” (I'm not active on here.)

Articles

Artifical Counter-Intelligence

Feb 20, 2025 | mondaq.com | Joanna Caen |Cara Fitzpatrick

An original version of this article was firstpublished by STEP Journal, February 2025. Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm withits fast integration into both personal andwork life. Firms worldwide are intrigued about AI's capabilities, butat this current time there is not a fullunderstanding of AI in general and, more specifically, theabilities of certain AI models.
Artificial counter-intelligence

Jan 22, 2025 | journal.step.org | Joanna Caen |Cara Fitzpatrick

Joanna Caen TEP and Cara Fitzpatrick comment on the challenges and impact of AI in the modern-day private client firm CPD Business practice Ethics and Standards Technology Although artificial intelligence (AI) began in the 1950s with Alan Turing publishing ‘Computer Machinery and Intelligence’,[1] it has since become more commonly used, with its adoption exponentially increasing over the past year or two.
A Conversation About School Choice

May 12, 2024 | cultofpedagogy.com | Jennifer Gonzalez |Jennifer González |Cara Fitzpatrick

Listen to the interview with Cara Fitzpatrick (transcript):Sponsored by WeVideo and The Modern Classrooms ProjectThis page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? At first glance, the notion of school choice is a no-brainer. Obviously, a parent should be allowed to choose the best school for their child.
Review of The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America

Jan 23, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Cara Fitzpatrick |Neal McCluskey

If you want a refresher on the school choice movement since 1950, you could do worse than The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America, by journalist Cara Fitzpatrick. The book is easily digested, and while race and segregation are major parts of the story, it does not succumb to the simple narrative too often seen: choice is grounded in racism. The book has problems, but they do not disfigure the history too badly.
Book investigates 'The Death of Public School'

Oct 24, 2023 | kansascity.com | Cara Fitzpatrick

In the past seven decades, an astonishing array of people and organizations have tried to wrest taxpayer funding away from America's public schools and give it to private ones. In many cases, they've had motives other than improving education for all.
Cara Fitzpatrick investigates ‘The Death of Public School’

Oct 12, 2023 | tampabay.com | Cara Fitzpatrick

In the past seven decades, an astonishing array of people and organizations have tried to wrest taxpayer funding away from America’s public schools and give it to private ones. In many cases, they’ve had motives other than improving education for all.
Useful history of school choice exaggerates threat to public education.

Sep 22, 2023 | thefreelibrary.com | Cara Fitzpatrick

The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in Americaby Cara FitzpatrickBasic Books, 2023, $32; 384 pages. CARA FITZPATRICK'S NEW BOOK does not deliver on the promise of its title, for it doesn't describe the death of public schools or even show that they have a nasty cough. Instead, this volume by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist recounts a history of the school-choice movement in which public education remains very much alive and well.
The Charter-School Movement’s New Divide

Sep 12, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Cara Fitzpatrick

In early June, a state board in Oklahoma did something that seemed obviously unconstitutional: It approved a new, openly Catholic charter school. Students at the proposed St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School would receive religious instruction, and the online school would participate in “the evangelizing mission of the Church,” according to St. Isidore’s application to the state.
The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America

Aug 14, 2023 | bookshop.org | Cara Fitzpatrick

(Author) FORMAT Hardcover$32.00$29.76(English) Backorder (temporarily out of stock) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education--one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school America has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack.
Is public school as we know it ending?

Jul 24, 2023 | newswav.com | Cara Fitzpatrick

Private school vouchers lost a lot of battles, but they may have won the war. As the new school year kicks off, education advocates are bracing for continued attacks on America's public schools. Yet despite the ongoing culture wars schools have facedin recent years,pollsters find that parents still generally like their kids' schools, and most of the political opposition has come from those without kids in the public school system.