Month: December 2017

• Social Impact Bonds: Bankers Get Paid Only If Education Works?

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  December 31, 2017

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  Accountability

  When I am speaking about education policy in different parts of the country (go here please), I am often asked what is coming next in the effort to profit and privatize public goods during the Q&A. Lynn Davenport, a Cloaking Inequity reader from Texas, asked me to blog information about social impact bonds. What are…

• Are you an Education Voter?

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  December 29, 2017

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  Wisdom

  It’s that time of year. The political parties are starting to gear up for the 2018 election. My phone is starting to ring because candidates are doing their personal outreach to raise funds for their upcoming campaigns. I recently got a call from a congressional candidate in New Mexico who sounded great on the phone.…

  

• How College Campuses Can Uphold Free Speech AND Shut Down Racists

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  December 15, 2017

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  Wisdom

  At the Center for Human and Civil Rights museum in Atlanta, Georgia, there’s an exhibit with headphones where you can sit and experience the verbal abuse that many civil rights activists lived through during the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins. They could not verbally respond to the racists, lest they suffer violent consequences. Instead, they used nonviolent protest…