At The Root, Deron Snyder champions the idea of same-sex education for young black men as a way to overcome those dire statistics that have been making the news lately. All of this is based on the success of Chicago’s Urban Prep, an all-male charter school in Chicago that sent all of its 2010 graduates […]
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Giving Bullies a Pass
The “It Gets Better” campaign goes mainstream — and misses the whole point.
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The Re-Education of a Citizens United Denier
The Supreme Court didn’t just let corporations in; it created a new kind of money broker.
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Linguistic Oppression, There and Here.
Some disturbing news from Tibet: Protests have erupted over the Chinese government’s plan to severely limit the use of the Tibetan language in schools, sometimes even relegating it to the status of an elective course. I did my master’s thesis on the syntax of Lhasa Tibetan, a rare type of language that exhibits ergative case-marking […]
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It’s Not the Teachers’ Unions
Contrary to conventional wisdom on the right — and now the left — unions have actually been at the forefront of education-reform efforts.
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When Affirmative Action Was White.
Over the weekend, Adam Serwer did a Bloggingheads with Amy Wax, author of Race, Wrongs, and Remedies and professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. At the core of her book is a challenge to liberals who believe that government action is necessary to alleviate economic disparities between whites and African Americans. By her […]
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A CREW’d Response.
If you haven’t read it yet, go check out Mike Elk‘s article about how some progressive leaders ended up working alongside the for-profit higher-education industry to fight new student-loan regulations. It’s a blockbuster story, and it’s already garnered a good deal of attention — including a response from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington […]
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Why Are Progressives Fighting Student-Loan Reform?
How the for-profit college industry co-opted liberal activists
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Teacher Trap
In the world of education, there’s no such thing as a Superman.
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Nonbelievers, Privilege, and Religious Knowledge.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life recently conducted a survey where they phoned more than 3,400 Americans and surveyed them on basic religious knowledge. The results, I gather, were a little surprising: Researchers from the independent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life phoned more than 3,400 Americans and asked them 32 questions […]
