Education in America

One of the things I love about TAPPED is that it’s a general progressive politics blog, a health care blog, a feminist blog, an education policy blog, a foreign policy blog, an election blog, and a legal blog all in one, due to the personalities and predilections of its contributors. There’s no ghettoization of “women’s […]

I second Ezra‘s recommendation of Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein‘s article today advising caution in evaluating claims that education reform can solve systemic economic problems. But I want to add a caveat. When I tell people I often write about education, they sometimes inform me that while they wish American schools were better, there’s little […]

It ain’t super sexy, but on the heels of reports that inequality has now reached a post-World War II high; and with Bush reciting the familiar mantra of education, education, education; absolutely everyone should read TAP‘s lead story today, where Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein brutally debunk the idea that accelerating inequality is a product […]

Over at Politico, TAPPED’s dearly departed Ben Adler reports on the growing, bipartisan movement in favor of increasing opportunities for national service. Chris Dodd‘s proposal to increase AmeriCorps funding to accommodate 1 million young volunteers annually is wonderful. I’m consistently amazed by the number of high-achieving college graduates I know who are rejected from AmeriCorps […]

As others have pointed out today, philanthropy by the wealthy can rarely have the same impact in the international arena as collective action by people with less money through their governments. That said, a remark by UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres at a press conference with Angelina Jolie on the education of children […]

The first candidate with a comprehensive education plan is John Edwards. No surprise there, and no surprise that the proposals are excellent. The details were released last Friday and highlighted in a speech at an Iowa middle school; apologies for not getting to it until today. The basics: Universal pre-school for 4-year olds, with tuition […]

EDWARDS ON AIDS. Proving once again that there’s no grassroots progressive interest group John Edwards can’t woo, he became today the first presidential candidate to respond to 100 HIV/AIDS advocacy organizations who have sounded “A Call to Action” for a “National AIDS Strategy.” His proposal is here, and although parts of it are, of course, […]