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  • Activism
    People Win Over Dark Money in Arizona School Voucher Fight
    August 28, 2017
    | James Arwood
    A people-powered army collected 110,000 signatures in 90 days to stop a controversial school-choice law.
  • Inequality
    In Our Schools, Black Lives Matter, Too
    July 21, 2016
    | Elaine Weiss
    Disparities in education begin at an early age and we as a society need to make a commitment to fund our schools equitably so all students have a chance to succeed.
  • When Reforms Don't Give Students What They Deserve
    June 10, 2014
    | Elisabeth Hoyson and Elaine Weiss
    A former teaching fellow writes that reforms meant to help our most disadvantaged kids sometimes end up exacerbating inequality and depriving them of fundamental basics.
  • NY Charters Will Not Have to Pay Rent
    March 30, 2014
    | Diane Ravitch
    Public school advocate Diane Ravitch responds to the news that charter schools will receive new protections under a budget deal reached between NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature.
  • Morning Reads: Ugly Islamophobia in TN; A Major Corruption Case in CA
    March 27, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • The Real 21st-Century Education Crisis is Poverty
    November 6, 2013
    | Elaine Weiss
    A new study showing explosive growth in student poverty suggests that the biggest change we need to address may be that of our student body.
  • The Real Reason Public Schools are Failing
    June 7, 2013
    | David Sirota
    Poor schools underperform largely because of poverty and economic inequality, not because teachers have it too easy, writes David Sirota.
  • Society
    Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot: Problems and Promise of School Today
    October 12, 1988 | Updated March 30, 2015 | A World of Ideas
    The writer and professor discusses philosophies of education, what makes some schools good and some teachers memorable, and her mother's extraordinary journey to a career as a child psychoanalyst.


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