While a college education is now a prerequisite for joining the middle class, the middle class is in lousy shape.
Education in America
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The Teacher Wars: How the Idealism of LBJ and RFK Set the Stage for Today’s Education Strife
The National Teacher Corps of the 1960s and 1970s paved the way for Teach For America
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The United Kingdom Nearly Died for Margaret Thatcher’s Sins
The Scots got sick and tired of Thatcherite policies imposed from London.
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Education Alone Is Not the Answer to Income Inequality and Slow Recovery
If everyone in America got a PhD, the job market would not be transformed.
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Listen: Affirmative Action ‘Race or Place’ Debate on SiriusXM’s ‘Make It Plain’
The Prospect’s ongoing discussion on how to save affirmative action takes to the airwaves with a spirited discussion between Sheryll Cashin and Richard Rothstein.
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Billionaires Behind the Attack on Public Education in California Tenure Suit
As outspoken teachers are already finding out, what good are First Amendment rights if you have to choose between exercising them and paying your bills?
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Moral Mondays: Capitol Showdown
Fifteen protesters have a breakthrough night in North Carolina’s long-running budget battles.
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Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Rethinking ‘Zero Tolerance’
A new approach to discipline seeks to keep kids in school and, ultimately, out of prison. In one high school, the number of serious incidents of misbehavior plummeted 60 percent, after the start of a “restorative justice” program.
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White House Action on Campus Sexual Violence: For Me, It’s Personal
At first I thought that it was my own fault that the school did not care enough to do anything; I wondered if I was a perfect enough victim to warrant any concern.
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Pencils Out
The Prospect speaks with an education-policy expert Linda Darling-Hammond about standardized testing in the implementation of Common Core, a national set of guidelines on math and reading.
