Tag: Education

  • Please don’t yawn. When most Americans hear the word “accreditation,” their eyes glaze over. It’s not flashy. It doesn’t spark headlines like student debt relief or campus protests. But accreditation is one of the quiet, foundational pillars of American higher education. It’s the gatekeeper of federal student aid, the validator of institutional quality, and the primary public…

    When the Con Becomes Policy: How Trump University Can Become a National Model
  • Donald Trump didn’t need to understand pedagogy, curriculum theory, or student development to begin reshaping American education. He only needed to understand one thing: most educational leaders lack courage and savvy. That’s the real hack. Trump recognized that superintendents, college presidents, school boards, and state commissioners—many of whom were trained and hired in an era…

    The Courage Deficit: How Trump Hacked Education—and What We Must Do Now
  • If you missed it live, I joined education advocate and host Leonie Haimson on WBAI’s “Talk Out of School” to sound the alarm on a growing threat to American education. This wasn’t your average policy chat—it was a serious conversation about how Donald Trump and his political allies are dragging education into a new Dark Age, dismantling the very pillars…

    Trump’s New Dark Age: What You Missed on “Talk Out of School”
  • On Sunday, April 20 at 7 PM EST, I’ll be joining Leonie Haimson on WBAI 99.5 FM’s Talk Out of School to discuss one of the most urgent questions facing American public education today: Is Trump forcing education into a new Dark Age? That’s not just a rhetorical question. It’s a serious inquiry into the political and ideological project underway—a…

    Talk Out of School: Is Trump Forcing Education Into a New Dark Age?
  • Every once in a while, your alma mater does something that reminds you what higher education is supposed to stand for. In a moment when academic freedom is under siege, when censorship is being repackaged as patriotism, and when political overreach is infiltrating the classroom, Stanford University rose above the noise. It didn’t just issue a statement—it…

    In Defense of Liberty: When Stanford Stands Tall—and Michigan Shrinks

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