Chris Hedges and Nikhil Goyal Discuss How to Save the American Education System (Video)

BLANK Apr 11, 2017 The journalist tells Hedges that the system is "designed to inculcate the traits of obedience, punctuality and respect for authority within working-class children." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama’s New Education Secretary Moves to Protect Standardized Testing

Staff / Truthdig Jun 20, 2016 Far from dispensing with the controversial, high-stakes practice, John King intends to defend it “by blackmail if necessary,” writes Marilena Marchetti at Socialist Worker. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Obama Signs New Education Law Granting States Greater Power

Staff / Truthdig Dec 11, 2015 The Every Student Succeeds Act scraps the federally mandated high-stakes testing regime of No Child Left Behind, the despised Bush-era federal education law. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Jeb Bush’s Audacious Announcement

David Sirota / Truthdig Jun 22, 2015 Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's presidential campaign announcement speech at Miami Dade College last week was an extreme makeover including passages that probably had America doing a double take. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

VIDEO: John Oliver: How Standardized Tests Enrich Companies, Sicken Students and Get Teachers Fired

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig May 4, 2015 The "Last Week Tonight" host dedicated the longest section of his HBO show Sunday to discussing the one thing teachers, students and parents all despise: standardized testing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Test Mutiny: Tens of Thousands of N.Y. Parents Protest Standardized Exams

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 17, 2015 Tens of thousands of parents took a stand against the education agenda of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and standardized tests nationwide by having their children boycott one such exam in mid-April. In some districts, abstention levels reached 80 percent. (Pictured: Jack Bierwirth, the superintendent of Herricks Public Schools in Long Island.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Facing the Beast: What Broke American Education?

BLANK Sep 20, 2013 Two new books about the woes of public education stake out opposing views of the problems, and the solutions, all wrapped up for you in this New York Review of Books essay review. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

An Education Declaration to Rebuild America

Staff / Truthdig Jun 13, 2013 Good schools are essential to democracy and prosperity -- and it is our collective responsibility to educate all children, not just a fortunate few, according to a manifesto on the Education Opportunity Network. To rebuild America, we need a vision for 21st-century education based on seven principles, it urges. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Teachers Struggle for Tenure Under New Rules

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 18, 2012 With New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on a mission to “end tenure as we know it,” nearly half of the city’s eligible teachers were denied the status that educators’ advocates embrace as essential for defense against discriminatory firing.New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign to “end tenure as we know it" resulted in nearly half of New York City's eligible teachers being denied tenure in 2012. Dig deeper ( 3 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 )

10 States Get a Pass on ‘No Child Left Behind’

Staff / Truthdig Feb 9, 2012 It's one of the most maligned domestic relics of the George W. Bush era, and now President Obama has stepped in to let 10 states off the hook, at least for the time being, from the experiment in educational standardization known as "No Child Left Behind." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

No Child Left Behind 10 Years Later

Staff / Truthdig Jan 8, 2012 With the broadly lamented education bill turning 10 on Sunday and Congress and the White House divided over how to update it, Dana Goldstein at The Nation considers the effects of some of the law's mainstays: the spotlight on the achievement gap, standardized testing, the rhetoric of failing schools and upper-middle-class alienation. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )