Outcome-Based Education. No Child Left Behind. Race to the Top. These ambitious government programs aim at making students better at completing tests, holding teachers accountable for classroom performance and (hopefully) producing better educated ci...
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Outcome-Based Education. No Child Left Behind. Race to the Top. These ambitious government programs aim at making students better at completing tests, holding teachers accountable for classroom performance and (hopefully) producing better educated ci...
Reading the New York Times piece on gender relations at Harvard Business School should be encouraging, but I don’t blame you if it reminds you of trying to empty the Pacific Ocean with a dixie cup. The fact is, HBS’s new gender equality i...
Reading the New York Times piece on gender relations at Harvard Business School should be encouraging, but I don’t blame you if it reminds you of trying to empty the Pacific Ocean with a dixie cup. The fact is, HBS’s new gender equality i...
“Why should I wait until I turn 18? Why is that a magic number for responsibility, for leadership, for empowerment among youth… I’m ready now.” Standing at a podium before hundreds of attendees at the U.S. Department of Education’s ED You...
“Why should I wait until I turn 18? Why is that a magic number for responsibility, for leadership, for empowerment among youth… I’m ready now.” Standing at a podium before hundreds of attendees at the U.S. Department of Education’s ED You...
Chris Hayes hosts MSNBC’s primetime show “All In with Chris Hayes,” and is the author of the recent book “Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy.” Hayes, who graduated from Brown in 2001, spoke with BPR’...
Chris Hayes hosts MSNBC’s primetime show “All In with Chris Hayes,” and is the author of the recent book “Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy.” Hayes, who graduated from Brown in 2001, spoke with BPR’...
According to an article published by Education Week just yesterday, Tucson Unified’s hugely popular and highly controversial Mexican-American studies program, eliminated just months ago by executive decision of newly appointed Arizona state superin...
According to an article published by Education Week just yesterday, Tucson Unified’s hugely popular and highly controversial Mexican-American studies program, eliminated just months ago by executive decision of newly appointed Arizona state superin...
In the past year, we’ve heard President Obama and Governor Romney talk about everything from Libya to the London Olympics. However, public education has been noticeably absent from our nation’s discourse. A topic that has been included in nationa...
In the past year, we’ve heard President Obama and Governor Romney talk about everything from Libya to the London Olympics. However, public education has been noticeably absent from our nation’s discourse. A topic that has been included in nationa...
It’s the first day of kindergarten. Aren’t you cute? You, five years old, walk out the door to school, maybe for the first time – excited, impatient, catatonic or crying hysterically. You’ve walked past your neighborhood school hundreds of ti...
It’s the first day of kindergarten. Aren’t you cute? You, five years old, walk out the door to school, maybe for the first time – excited, impatient, catatonic or crying hysterically. You’ve walked past your neighborhood school hundreds of ti...
Marked ballot. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Although the country as a whole has been devastated by the current economic recession, some places have fared worse than others. And among the states that have struggled the most in the last few y...
Marked ballot. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Although the country as a whole has been devastated by the current economic recession, some places have fared worse than others. And among the states that have struggled the most in the last few y...
The topics for the first presidential debate have been announced and education is not on the agenda. The economy dominates half of the planned topics, which is unsurprising. But the recently ended teachers strike in Chicago has put education back on ...
The topics for the first presidential debate have been announced and education is not on the agenda. The economy dominates half of the planned topics, which is unsurprising. But the recently ended teachers strike in Chicago has put education back on ...