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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Frederick M. Hess |Michael McShane |Jennifer Berkshire |Jack Schneider
The political right has been on the offensive lately in educational reform, while the progressive left is battening down the hatches. The mood is starkly different on each side of the political divide and these two books are representative of the coalescing forces on the right and the left. From the right, Frederick Hess and Michael McShane have offered a comprehensive plan with their book, Getting Education Right: A Conservative Vision for Improving Early Childhood, K–12, and College.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
dx.doi.org | A.J. Angulo |Jack Schneider
In recent months, protests at US colleges and universities—replete with sit-ins, anti-war slogans, tent villages, and arrests of students—have inspired comparisons with 1960s-era activism.Footnote 1 During that convulsive period, students responded to the Vietnam War by turning their campuses into sites for civil disobedience and forums for free speech.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
dx.doi.org | A.J. Angulo |Jack Schneider
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
dx.doi.org | A.J. Angulo |Jack Schneider
The history of education, as a field, has never been more necessary. In a time of contestation and upheaval, it is more essential than ever to understand the past. At the same time, the field is shrinking in some parts of the world—both in its institutional footprint and in its membership. Signs suggest that other interests and priorities are displacing projects, programs, and places of employment for historians of education. What, then, does this mean for the future?
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
kappanonline.org | Ashley Carey |Jack Schneider |Rebecca H. Woodland |Brendan Sheran
We live in polarized times. At the local, state, and national levels, our politics have become increasingly divisive — especially, it seems, when it comes to our public schools. As a result, the idea of common ground in matters of education policy can feel almost naively old-fashioned. Yet dialogue, listening, and compromise are essential elements of living in a democracy. That’s because political legitimacy requires more than a slim partisan majority.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Pepper Stetler |Shalinee Sharma |Jennifer Berkshire |Jack Schneider
School is back in session, and students are facing a fresh set of challenges—assignments, tests, and the ever-present pressure to perform. For parents and educators, the question is not just how to keep up but how to help students truly thrive. To navigate this landscape and unlock each child’s potential, check out these six insightful books that offer fresh perspectives on education, intelligence, and success.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Jennifer Berkshire |Jack Schneider
Can we count on you? In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot. The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win. We’ve already seen events that fill us with both dread and cautious optimism—throughout it all, The Nation has been a bulwark against misinformation and an advocate for bold, principled perspectives.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
inthepublicinterest.org | Jeff Hagan |Jack Schneider
Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider, coauthors of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, have written a new book, The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual (both books are published by the New Press). In it, the two explore the seemingly sudden assault on public schools from Christian conservatives and fiscal conservatives and show that it is, in fact, not so sudden, but rather a sustained line of attack against which public school defenders have been fighting for decades.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
kappanonline.org | Mark Hlavacik |Jack Schneider
Over the years, the PDK Poll regularly asked Americans to rate the quality of our nation’s schools. And for the past few decades, roughly two-thirds of respondents have indicated low levels of satisfaction. Using the A-F letter grades so often given in schools, they land somewhere around a C or a C-. At the same time, however, the poll reveals higher rates of satisfaction among parents with children actually in the public schools.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
nextbigideaclub.com | Ellen Atlanta |Clayton Aldern |Jennifer Berkshire |Jack Schneider
Jennifer Berkshire is a freelance journalist and host of the education podcast Have You Heard. She teaches in the Boston College Prison Education Program. Jack Schneider is the Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he directs the Center for Education Policy. Below, co-authors Jennifer and Jack share five key insights from their new book, The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual.
