Drawing By James Stevenson. By Jonah Lehrer | Originally Published at The New Yorker. June 12, 2012 Editors’ Note: The introductory paragraphs of this post appeared in similar form in an October, 2011, column by Jonah Lehrer for the Wall Street Journal. We regret the duplication of [...]
Illustration by Andreas Samuelsson. Photograph by Thomas Hannich When old is new again and new is old the conversation must be about education. Throughout our history people have fought for the right to educate all equally and then turned the mission over to the masters, the moguls, [...]
If it takes a village to raise a child, the same village must share accountability when many children are educationally abandoned. In New York City, the nation’s largest school system, on average student outcomes and their opportunity to learn are more determined by the neighborhood [...]
By Elizabeth Whitman | Originally Published at The Nation. April 26, 2012 Schools have morphed from extensions of a community into centers that more closely resemble factories and prisons, says David Stovall, associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. What will it take to confront [...]
Even those of us who aren't religious tend to rely on some notion of a soul.' Illustration: John Holcroft for the Guardian. Click on picture for full frame Are they both essentially the same thing, asks Oliver Burkeman By Oliver Burkeman | Originally Published at [...]
Photograph; AP/Getty Images By Noam Chomsky | Originally Published at In These Times. April 4, 2012 One of America’s greatest achievements is being defunded and degraded by the dictates of the marketplace. Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have [...]
Photograph; The wooden paddle sits on the principal's desk at Sneads High School in Jackson County, Florida. In 2009, Florida embraced a rigorous policy – Corporal punishment is good; it keeps young children in school and far from the juvenile justice system. "This legislation [SB 1540 pdf] [...]
Photograph; Q99.info By Liz Dwyer | Originally Published at Good. February 29, 2012 In a bold comparative analysis of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Jada Williams, a 13-year old eighth grader at School #3 in Rochester, New York, asserted that in her experience, today's [...]
In American society, we can't avoid the fact that socioeconomic disparities are racial disparities By Joe Pettit | Originally Published at The Baltimore Sun. February 22, 2012 | Photographic Credit; Chris Ryan/Getty Images Imagine a report that reached the following three conclusions: In Maryland, 35 percent [...]
