The bitter debate over teaching abstinence-only in schools has gotten tired and myopic. It’s time to improve and expand our notion of what sex ed means.
Education in America
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WHAT THE CONVENTION SAYS ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS AND EDUCATION.
Dana Goldstein looks at how the Democrats’ convention shows new heterodoxy on education: As a teachers’ union activist, Nancy is typical of hundreds of delegates attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. Teachers and their unions remain some of the most loyal and influential grass-roots Democrats; out of 4,400 convention delegates, about one-tenth […]
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THE DEMOCRATS’ EDUCATION DIVIDE.
I didn’t actually attend the Democrats for Education reform panel where the union bashing happened, but I met Dana at their reception and it turns out that bashing unions=really delicious food and so I sort of see the attraction. Even so, it’s a shame. Demonizing unions won’t get reformers anywhere. You’re not going to get […]
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The Democratic Education Divide
A pre-convention education event was full of anti-union rhetoric, even as teachers’ union members remain among the most loyal of Democratic constituencies.
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BOTH/AND.
The odd thing about the bitter contretemps between the centrist education reform coalition centered around the Education Equality Project and the liberal education reform coalition centered around Bigger, Bolder is that if you merged the two visions, you’d have a solid, comprehensive approach with no apparent internal contradictions, that integrates both the social policy/child welfare […]
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THE ABORTION PLANK, ABORTION REDUCTION, AND THE JUNO OPTION.
Dana and many others have noted that, despite claims by pro-lifers that they influenced the Democratic Party Platform Committee to include nods to their “abortion reduction” strategy, the platform has a strong pro-choice plank. The pro-life contingent that has been pressing the Democratic Party to embrace “abortion reduction” now includes not just life-long Democrats but […]
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THINK TANK ROUNDUP: BIG EASY EDITION.
Late in the day but never last in your heart, it’s time for the latest from the research front on issues from parole to China trade. Eye on Katrina, Three Years Later. As of this month, the city of New Orleans has recovered 73 percent of its pre-Katrina households and an astonishing 90 percent of […]
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Business Schools
Edison Schools learned what career educators have always known: Managing schools isn’t easy or particularly profitable.
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MCCAIN REVISES ATTACK ON OBAMA’S EDU RECORD.
In his speech today to the Urban League, John McCain revised his attacks on Obama’s education plan, saying he is in thrall to teachers’ unions and opposed to “school choice.” (Click here to see why this critique is misleading.) McCain also took the opportunity to announce his own support for the Education Equality Project, a […]
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False Accusation
Blaming public housing policy for an increase in crime misses the point — the problem is a lack of true support for equitable housing and economic policy.
