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A Chat About Public Schools with Eli Broad’s Ghost

June 13, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

When someone gets to the other side, if they look back, do they question how they could have led their life differently, in this case, in particular, the late Eli Broad and his influence on public education? First, it’s troubling the United States doesn’t tax the wealthy the way they should and that Americans don’t […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art, Broad prize for Urban education, Broad superintendency academy, charter schools, education, Eli Broad, Network for Public Education, New Leaders, public schools, science, The Broad Center at Yale, venture philanthropy

Truth to Power: Facing the Disruptors with Courage and Resolve

January 18, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

We live in troubling times, reflected in the longtime attacks on one of our most sacred democratic institutions, public schools. But Americans have a fierce fighter for those schools in Diane Ravitch. The historian, in her new book Slaying Goliath, reminds us of the dangers facing schools, but also the hope we have in a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Diane Ravitch, Network for Public Education, public education, Saving Public Schools, Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools

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