Education in America

President Bush’s education effort so far has been high on photo ops and low on substance. He claimed he was increasing education funding by more than 11 percent. That’s not quite right. Adjusted for some fuzzy math — Bush credited himself with increases passed under Clinton — the number is more like 5.9 percent. But […]

During the past month of the presidential race, “objectivity” in the mainstream media has become virtually indistinguishable from lowering the bar for George W. Bush — despite the governor’s repeated During the past month of the presidential race, “objectivity” in the mainstream media has become virtually indistinguishable from lowering the bar for George W. Bush […]

Time has left an ever-widening gulf — of years and of outlook — between Bob Hodge, the affable chair of Beloit College’s history department, and his students. Decades now separate him from the 20 year-olds who populate his undergraduate classes. But that was not always the case. To hear Hodge tell the story, it might […]

Of all the world leaders discussing sex last week, George W. Bush was the least stimulating. Hot on the heels of the United Nations Special Session on AIDS — at which even Libya and Pakistan pledged to expand access to condoms and “youth-friendly information and sexual health education” to slow the spread of the disease […]

The New York TImes The way a debate is framed and choices are posed is often more important than which option is chosen. That’s because the framing of the debate sends a powerful message to the public about what’s at stake. It sets the boundaries of discourse. For politicians to stray beyond requires too much […]

Interview by A J Vogl Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich looks at why so many people feel they’re running just to stay in place. Robert B. Reich makes it look easy-from university to government back to university again. In 1992, he left Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to serve as secretary of labor during […]