Jennifer Berkshire

3 weeks ago | educationwars.substack.com | Jennifer Berkshire

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3 weeks ago | educationwars.substack.com | Jennifer Berkshire

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1 month ago | thenation.com | Jack Schneider |Jennifer Berkshire

May 29, 2025 The Trump Administration’s Education Agenda: A Tragedy in 2 ActsThe Trump administration’s funding cuts and attacks on public education are just the beginning. Ad Policy Protesters stage a “study-in” in front of the Department of Education on March 21, 2025.(Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images) Burn it down. That’s what appears to be the guiding strategy of the Trump administration—particularly when it comes to education. Cancel the grants and contracts. Fire the employees.

1 month ago | educationwars.substack.com | Jennifer Berkshire

Champagne corks, storm clouds—I’m mixing my metaphors here. But as we survey the steaming wreckage of the 2025 state legislative sessions, both are present in spades.

1 month ago | jacobin.com | Jennifer Berkshire

When it comes to poking holes in the GOP’s claims to now be a populist party of the working class, the effort to shred Medicaid in order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy is exhibit A. But I’d make the case that a $5 billion voucher program, smuggled into the text of the budget reconciliation bill this week, may be an even more glaring example of faux populism in action.