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 […]
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The Campus Anti-Sweatshop Movement
The campus anti-sweatshop movement is the first since the campaign against apartheid. Even better, it’s closely linked to the labor movement—and it’s beginning to bear fruit.
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Sex Ed:
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 […]
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The Other Surplus Option
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 […]
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The treadmill of the new economy
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 […]
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Affirmative Actions’ California Afterlife
The debate about affirmative action at the University of California isn’t over yet.
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Muddy Waters
New data show just how successful affirmative action programs have been at elite colleges and universities. Too bad those data might not have much relevance for the current debate over preferences in higher education.Â
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Are Black Diplomas Worth Less?
Relative to whites, minorities have made impressive gains in education attainment. Why are they still falling behind economically?
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One Education Does Not Fit All
The New York Times Thomas Lepuschitz, one of 46 Austrians recruited by New York City to help ease the shortage of math and science teachers, told a New York Times reporter recently that he thought it strange that the state required even the slowest students to take math and science in order to graduate. It’s […]
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How Selective Colleges Heighten Inequality
The Chronicle Review Not long ago, the president of a prestigious university (not the one in which I now teach) was explaining his strategy to me. “We’re very selective, but we need to become even more selective,” he said. “Our SAT’s are rising, but not as fast as I’d like. We should be on par […]
