Third Parties, Your Time Is Now

Lark Lo / Truthdig Dec 29, 2017 We the people can’t survive with a little bit of evil anymore. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Administration’s Waivers Nullifying ‘No Child Left Behind’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 6, 2012 The Obama administration has relieved nearly 26 states of the program’s controversial requirement to make all students competent in reading and math by 2014. Ten more states are in line to receive the waivers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Income Inequality Goes to School

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Feb 24, 2012 Countering the efforts of educational reformers -- including President Obama and his Race to the Top crew -- to blame teachers for student failures, researchers are finding that the growing gap between the affluent and the poor is the real villain.The harm done by an economic system increasingly tilted toward the rich is much more than a pocketbook issue. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Cabinet Officials Raise ‘Gray Area’ Cash for Obama

Staff / Truthdig Nov 17, 2011 Skirting good ethics and the law of the land, White House Cabinet officials are touring the nation on behalf of President Obama's campaign fundraising machine, which has already taken in more cash than all the Republican presidential candidates combined and nearly three times as much as the president's richest competitor, Mitt Romney. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

A New Resistance to Standardized Tests

Staff / Truthdig Sep 4, 2011 A fresh national movement to oppose the standardized testing of young students is afoot. The Bartleby Project aims to invalidate state test results by getting parents and their children to simply opt out of testing; if enough did so, that would make schools' yearly progress ratings meaningless. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Obama Guts No Child Left Behind

Staff / Truthdig Aug 9, 2011 The Obama administration on Monday gave states a break from the ailing No Child Left Behind law, allowing them to file waivers that grant flexibility in meeting science and math proficiency standards. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Flunking Teachers Gives the Ruling Class a Pass

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Mar 30, 2011 With all the evil people in the world, why are public schoolteachers being villainized? And how did they attract such powerful enemies? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Beware of Arne Duncan’s Tricks

Moshe Adler / Truthdig Mar 10, 2011 The statistical evidence is that smaller class size means better education, but smaller class size also means higher taxes. So Education Secretary Arne Duncan chose trickery to divert parents from the clear road. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )