A New G.I. Bill?
By Kay Steiger - Jan 26th, 2009 at 12:50 pmThere’s an op-ed this morning in Inside Higher Ed by Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, that proposes a “new G.I.…
Posts Tagged ‘education’
They Use Clowns to Teach Abstinence. That Really Says Something About Abstinence
By Kay Steiger - Jan 16th, 2009 at 3:45 pmVia the illustrious Pam Spaulding at Pandagon, a middle school in Ohio hired Derek Dye to dress up as a clown and teach messages of…
Colleges Not Spending on Students
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 16th, 2009 at 2:51 pmAs a state-school student–a Big Ten one at that–I always have a lingering fear that the majority of my outrageous annual tuition (in the $40,000…
Arne Duncan Reminds Me of Death
By David Spett - Dec 17th, 2008 at 1:47 pmMissing from all the news stories about Obama’s pick for education secretary, Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan, is any mention of the fact that…
My Private School Is (Not) Better than Yours
By Daniel Strauss - Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:45 amAdam Serwer writes that the Obama girls will be missing out on something crucial by moving to Sidwell:
Even though I knew that the Obamas…
Donor Value
By Daniel Strauss - Dec 4th, 2008 at 2:29 pmIn my last Pushback post I argued that more donations should go to smaller, less renowned schools. In response Celia commented :
Agreed for the…
Things to Read: Education Reform Edition
By Kay Steiger - Dec 3rd, 2008 at 6:07 pmOver at Campus Progress, Celia Segal has a good rundown of the debate over K-12 education and what problems President-elect Barack Obama will be facing:…
College Donations Can Go to Small Schools Too
By Daniel Strauss - Dec 3rd, 2008 at 5:26 pmMatthew Yglesias (a Harvard graduate) writes :
[G]iving money to wealthy elite universities still doesn’t make much sense. If you want to donate to something…
I Voted
By Jesse Singal - Nov 4th, 2008 at 2:04 pmI voted this morning at the Bell Multicultural Senior High School in Mt. Pleasant, a neighborhood in northwest DC. I was probably in and out…
Bad Education
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 2:22 pmThis Harvard Crimson story encapsulates everything that’s wrong with Teach for America:
Four days ago, a select group of eighth graders from G. Gardner Shugart…
Governors Want Painless College Budget Cuts
By Pedro de la Torre - Oct 31st, 2008 at 12:10 pmThe National Governors Association (NGA) sent a letter to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings yesterday asking that no state be held accountable under new laws…
Expensive Colleges Feel the Economic Crisis, Too
By Daniel Strauss - Oct 29th, 2008 at 12:37 pmYou’d think with a hefty tuition of almost $50,000 a year per student the most expensive colleges in the country would be comfortably insulated from…
“Plenty of kids need 10 pages on Hamlet by Thursday”
By Jamelle Bouie - Oct 27th, 2008 at 11:16 amI’d wager that most UVA students who frequent Alderman Library (the “main” library on Grounds at the University) have seen the short older man with…
G.I. Bill: Too Late?
By Kay Steiger - Oct 21st, 2008 at 6:20 pmI’ve written before about the potential problems with enacting the new G.I. Bill legislation, sponsored by Sen. Jim Webb, but The Washington Post has a…
In Defense of Chicago’s “Gay School”
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 20th, 2008 at 11:18 amThe Los Angeles Times opposes Chicago’s proposed LGBT charter school. The arguments are familiar, that “the creation of a cloistered, segregated environment represents an easy…
