by Jack Jennings | Nov 21, 2018 | advocating, education research
This month, November 2018, a translation in Japanese of my book, Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools, was released in Tokyo. I want to thank the University of Tokyo Press for this opportunity, and also thank you to the Harvard Education Press for working with...
by Jack Jennings | Jan 12, 2018 | advocating, politics
To win elections, it is helpful to have a disliked opponent. People are more motivated to vote against someone than they are to vote for someone, according to an old adage. The dreams of Democrats to have such opponents could not be better fulfilled than to...
by Jack Jennings | Nov 11, 2017 | advocating, politics, school funding, teachers
Corporations and the rich will pay less in taxes. Public education will be weakened. Revenge on Democratic-leaning states will be extracted. This trifecta of disastrous results comes from the budget bill passed in late October by the House and by the Senate a...
by Jack Jennings | May 31, 2017 | advocating, federal funding, politics
The country is so politically divided that people increasingly are not tolerant of different views or respectful of others. This is not simply a lack of good manners. It is a blow to a democratic society. After a half century’s involvement in Washington policy-making,...
by Jack Jennings | Apr 23, 2017 | advocating, college degrees, college degrees, costs of college, federal education policy, federal funding, professors, student debt, student loans
I am honored to be part of this celebration of the life of Tom Wolanin. Donna, Andrew, Peter and other members of the family, you have the sympathy of everyone in this room. All of us knew Tom during his long career. We admired his talents. And, today, we salute him...
by Jack Jennings | Mar 4, 2017 | academic standards, accountability, advocating, NAEP, No Child Left Behind, testing
A Paper on the NAEP Long-Term Trend Assessments Prepared for the National Assessment Governing Board by Jack Jennings February 13, 2017. In this age of student testing mania, a strong justification should be required to initiate or continue any assessment. Edward...
by Jack Jennings | Feb 16, 2017 | advocating, federal education policy
If the United States valued education as much as military activities, children in elementary schools would have 45% more spent on their education than is provided now. High schools would see their budgets go up by 71%. American schools currently are not the best in...
by Jack Jennings | Feb 10, 2017 | academic standards, advocating, charter schools, children with disabilities, federal education policy, private schools / vouchers, Race to the Top, school choice, teachers
On February 9, 2017, Jack Jennings was interviewed on recent developments in education policy on the Facebook program, Video from the Washington Post. Why the Education Department exists We’re talking with education advocate Jack Jennings about the creation of the...
by Jack Jennings | Feb 1, 2017 | advocating, charter schools, federal education policy, federal funding, No Child Left Behind, private schools / vouchers, Race to the Top, school choice
During the campaign, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to respect state and local control of public education. With his nomination of Betsy DeVos for U.S. secretary of education, President-elect Trump has tossed that promise aside, saying that she will...
by Jack Jennings | Nov 7, 2016 | advocating
A longtime federal education authority concocts a three-part cure for addressing a common school leader’s phobia Psychologists label them phobias. They are a fear of something such as heights, closed spaces or ever-smiling elected officials. Science and medicine...
