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Ron Berler

Mar 15, 2025, 1:12 AM

Kids Know The Simple Lesson Of Right And Wrong

I wrote this for the Miami Herald shortly after Donald Trump first took office, in 2017. I could have written it today. It was the Friday before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Kathryn Frey had decided to read Carmen...

Mar 13, 2025, 6:25 AM

Trump Converts!

With hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas at a critical stage, my thoughts have turned to Donald Trump. This is his chance: To broker the Middle East peace deal that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and every U.S. president since...

About Me

Ron Berler is the author of "Raising the Curve: A Year Inside One of America's 45,000 Failing Public Schools." His opinion pieces have run in The New York Times, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune.