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The State of the Union is Ambivalent (2013)
Last year Elias Isquith asked me to contribute a piece to a forum he did on the State of the Union speech. There was some dispute between the contributors over how they read the speech which was my...
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Who Will Push Back? Without Strong Democratic Teachers’ Unions, We’re All...
Kindergartner students in the deep blue state of Massachusetts are being shamed by publicly posting their test scores. Here’s Sarah Jaffe reporting on “data walls”: Last year, K-12 teachers in the...
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Americans Sound Confused About Equality if You Ask the Wrong Question
According to Drew Desilver at the Pew Research Center, most Americans (65%) agree that the gap between the rich and everyone else is growing, which is true. “But ask people why the gap has grown, and...
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Charter Schools’ False Promise
Amidst all the debate about charter schools, one thing has often been left out. They are not delivering on what their advocates claimed they would do, as the New York Times reports: A primary rationale...
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Economic Inequalities are Legal Inequalities
Economic inequalities then—inequalities in freedom as producer and as consumer—are embodied in unequal legal rights. In assigning and enforcing legal rights to the fruits of transactions, the law is...
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Americans Remain Divided on Completely Meaningless Question
A recent Gallup poll (h/t Jonathan Cohn) provides another illustration of a point I’ve made before–view of Americans as presented in the media are a product of the weird sorts of questions asked by...
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Five Posts You May Have Missed in 2014
These posts didn’t get as much love. Sadly, none of them is out of date. 1. Criminalization is Pretty Harmful Too Here is some push back on the idea that decriminalization of things will lead to harms,...
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A Rant About Public Education and Redistributing Resources and Power.
Unable to come up with any good jokes about dresses or llamas, I had some things to say about public education, ed reformers, and the push back against them. I then Storified it. Check it out. In...
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Clean Water for All
Like many others, I’ve been horrified by the stories coming out of Flint, where the population of a city, disproportionately poor, disproportionately black, has been poisoned by lead in the tap water....
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It seems to me that the concept of privilege as it is commonly understood, is used to include two very different things. That is, when someone talks about someone having privilege, they can be speaking...
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