Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail By Rubén Martínez. Metropolitan Books, 330 pages, $26.00 Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted … They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves. We died in your hills, we died in your deserts, We died in your valleys and died on […]
Geoff Rips
Geoff Rips is an education fellow of the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation and is a former editor of The Texas Observer. He is currently coordinator of the Austin Public Education Foundation in Austin, Texas.
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Public Schools: An Ideal at Risk
Works Discussed in this Essay: Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform, by Frederick M. Hess. Brookings Institution Press, 228 pages, $16.95. The Tracking Wars: State Reform Meets School Policy, by Tom Loveless. Brookings Institution Press, 194 pages, $16.95. The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving beyond Traditional Classrooms and “Tougher […]
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The Way of RFK
Searching for America’s Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope, Peter Edelman. Houghton Mifflin, 272 pages, $26.00. Peter Edelman views the last decades of twentieth-century American social policy through a unique lens. As an aide to New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy, then as policy director for Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign, Edelman watched and participated […]