Send In the Clowns: 3 Stooges, Gingrich, Sharpton & Duncan Hit the Road For...
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Bruce DixonQuite separately from each other, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Rev. Al Sharpton and Newt Gingrich have long ago forfeited whatever credibility they...
View ArticleHigh Stakes Testing in Schools: Who’s Cheating Who?
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordCorporate school privatizers feign disgust with teachers that cheat the standardized tests. But big business theft of public education is by far the greater...
View ArticleWhy Was Atlanta's Beverly Hall Indicted For Racketeering While Michelle Rhee...
high stakes testingpublic educationschool privatizationBy BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonAtlanta's black former school superintendent and 34 other black teachers and administrators have been...
View ArticleTesting Public Education to Death in New York
high stakes testingNew York Cityby George Joseph and John TarletonThe real teaching crisis in New York is “the failure to keep experienced and highly capable teachers and allow them to do their jobs.”...
View ArticleBlack Parents Should Opt Their Children Out of High Stakes Testing
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen FordAs usual, the Black Misleadership Class is on the wrong side of democracy, urging Blacks to submit to a high stakes testing regime that is...
View ArticleBlack Agenda Radio for Week of September 7, 2015
Solitary Confinement to be Sharply Curtailed in CaliforniaA settlement between activist inmates and California prison officials will sharply limit the use of solitary confinement in the state. “I do...
View ArticleBlack Agenda Radio for Week of March 14, 2016
“Billionaires” Fund Defamation of Public Schools, TeachersA poll commissioned by In The Public Interest shows Americans still hold public schools and teachers in high regard, want charter schools to...
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