Common Core

Recapturing the liberal arts and healing the conservative rift over education

Tina Trent / February 1, 2017

Criticizing the excesses of higher education has become a cottage industry for conservative writers.* And so it should be, but are we learning the right lessons from this rich banquet…
DC schools spox who advocates abolishing white men worked for Media Matters

Matthew Vadum / December 15, 2016

The Washington, D.C. public schools spokeswoman who made racist, men-hating comments on social media used to work for Media Matters for America, a George Soros-funded slander shop that attacks conservatives.
Is Trump’s Education pick Betsy DeVos the best he can do?

Tina Trent / December 15, 2016

Many anti-Common Core citizen activists who worked hard for Donald Trump’s election are not happy about Trump’s pick to head the Department of Education, Betsy DeVos. I’m one of them.