Recovering lost voices
How the history profession narrowed over time. Who became marginalized. The importance of valuing things other than the production of book-length manuscripts on narrowly defined subjects.
Education underfunding still foundation of New York’s new budget
Lawsuit highlights state's failure to fund K-12 at level agreed necessary in 2007.
Do Cuomo tax cut and pre-K plans depend on continued violations of state’s existing education funding obligations?
The governor assures New Yorkers that there is a budgetary surplus that can fund a tax cut and that there’s even money to fund universal, state-wide pre-K without a tax increase. But would the money be available if the governor were honoring what the state’s highest court has determined to be the funding level necessary to meet the obligation to provide a “sound basic education” to all students?
Why no literacy programs for 30 million in U.S.?
It's a solvable problem, but Congress is apparently content with adults being stuck struggling at a third-grade reading level or below.
Why no literacy programs for 30 million in U.S.?
It's a solvable problem, but Congress is apparently content with adults being stuck struggling at a third-grade reading level or below.
Making government service the first choice for more college students
Taking a page from the recruiting playbooks of finance, consulting, and tech.
One graduation for all or add-on ceremonies for minority students?
What is done at flagship public universities and at top-rated private schools?
Inaugural flunks education history, limits aspirations
In an address that otherwise reprised many of the noblest principles from this country's history, President Obama's remarks on education offered only a bleak vision of schools as training grounds for employers. Neither the principle that a good education is an essential requisite for developing active citizens nor the idea that education has intrinsic value independent of its utility in the job market made it into the speech.