Rod Paige

Romney Shifts Focus To Education, Teachers' Unions

AP | STEVE PEOPLES | Posted 05.24.2012

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WASHINGTON — Originally planning to focus on education, Mitt Romney instead reignited the debate over his business credentials on Wednesday, wel...

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Prison Spending Bleeds the Education System

Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 06.07.2011

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Benjamin Todd Jealous

During the last two decades, state spending on prisons grew by 127%, six times the rate of spending on higher education. Policymakers should be able to propose sentencing reform without fear of being labeled "soft on crime."

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Texas State Board Of Education Swamped With Criticism Over New Textbook Guidelines

AP | APRIL CASTRO | Posted 05.25.2011

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AUSTIN, Texas — Conservatives on the Texas State Board of Education were defiant Wednesday as a parade of critics came before them, most urging ...

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Blaxploitation, GOP Style

Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Russ Baker

Tthe GOP is stepping up efforts to stress diversity, but is resorting to a tried-and-true W. tactic: the promotion of compromised, disreputable individuals -- a kind of lemon diversity that only highlights their cynicism and contempt for the public.

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Obama and Education Reform

Bill Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Ayers

Obama is not a monarch -- Arne Duncan is not education czar -- and we are not his subjects. Educators, students, and citizens must press now for an education worthy of a democracy.

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Looking Deeper Into Obama Education Pick's Accomplishments

Alexander Russo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alexander Russo

Like Bush's Education Secretary pick Rod Paige, Arne Duncan comes from a big city with a success story that the national press failed to figure out was mostly a mirage.

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Duncan Should Stay. But He Has to Go.

Alexander Russo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alexander Russo

Should Chicago schools superintendent Arne Duncan go to Washington if he's asked to head the U.S. Department of Education, or should he stay in town?

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