A new book explains why other progressive causes should take some cues from the preschool movement.
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Will Conservatives Leave Education Reform Behind?
Conservatives consider whether to throw their support behind reforming No Child Left Behind, or let the law continue to hobble along as an unfunded mandate.
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Elites and Teacher’s Unions
For a complex tangle of reasons having to do with everything from residence in DC to New York politics in the 80s to sheer faddishness, it’s utterly required for elite pundits to spend inordinate amounts of time bashing teacher’s unions. They hate them. They “Sister Souljah” them at every chance, always thinking — oh-so-admirably — […]
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REMITTANCES AND MIGRATION.
REMITTANCES AND MIGRATION. The findings come too late to be relevant to the now-stalled immigration reform push here in the U.S., but the news is still important, particularly to some European countries that may have similar efforts on the horizon: Women, and especially girls, are the greatest beneficiaries of remittances sent home by some 200 […]
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Race, Gender, and the Politics of Segregation
What the Supreme Court’s school desegregation ruling could mean for women’s rights.
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Second Tier Candidates, First Rate Ideas
Long-shot Democratic candidates are the ones taking a stance on many worthy, yet unsung, policy problems. Front-runners, pay attention.
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Re: Assimilation
Delagar replies to my earlier post on fears that mexican immigrants are uniquely resistant to English: I teach History of the English Language, so I know a bit about this…there weren’t DVDs, but there were plays, there were music hall shows, there was an entire publishing industry putting out books and magazines in Yiddish or […]
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Huddled Masses … of Software Engineers?
The trouble with the new immigration bill’s emphasis on educated professionals and engineers.
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Immigration Compromise
The worth of the new bill hinges on whether you think an effective amnesty for the country’s 12 million undocumented immigrants is worth a 400,000 to 600,000 person guest worker program. That’s the trade-off: A bad guest-worker program set against a broader path-to-citizenship program. My sense is that the system we’ve got right now is […]
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THE IMMIGRATION COMPROMISE….
THE IMMIGRATION COMPROMISE. The value of the new bill hinges on whether you think an effective amnesty for the country’s 12 million undocumented immigrants is worth a 400,000 to 600,000 person guest worker program. That’s the trade-off: A guest-worker program progressives should find abhorrent set against a broader path-to-citizenship that’s actually pretty good. My sense […]
