Education Reform

Rebels With a Cause Rebels With a Cause

A new generation of student activists is flexing its muscles, rolling back employment rules in France, demanding education reform in Chile and fighting for immigrant rights in the ...

Jun 15, 2006 / Column / Gary Younge

Science and the First Amendment Science and the First Amendment

If you can lie about science and get away with it, you can lie about anything. That's why we must say no to ideological zealots who are waging war against science and against democ...

May 16, 2006 / Feature / Patricia Princehouse

UCLA’s Dirty Thirty UCLA’s Dirty Thirty

Negative media coverage has succeeded in undermining support among prominent conservatives for a UCLA alumni group that paid students to target and expose left-leaning faculty.

Jan 26, 2006 / Jon Wiener

Education Mobilization Education Mobilization

Establish a first-rate education system to draw on our greatest untapped human resource: the children of our inner cities.

Jan 19, 2006 / Feature / Major Owens

Overcoming Apartheid Overcoming Apartheid

Apartheid education is alive in America and rapidly increasing in hyper-segregated inner-city schools. And though it's now fashionable for policy-makers to declare integration a fa...

Dec 1, 2005 / Feature / Jonathan Kozol

Darwin on Trial Darwin on Trial

As the site of a trial on including intelligent design in biology textbooks, Dover, Pennsylvania, is a focal point of a national debate on science and religion. But a look at the t...

Nov 10, 2005 / Feature / Eyal Press

Before School Before School

San Francisco recently launched universal preschool, designed to make young participants higher earners and better citizens when they reach adulthood. If successful, San Francisco&...

Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / David Kirp

The Increasingly Private Public School The Increasingly Private Public School

The privatization of the nation's greatest, once-public colleges and universities is well under way. The loss of low-cost higher education is a quiet tragedy, one that will severel...

Oct 25, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman

NYU’s Poison Ivy Itch NYU’s Poison Ivy Itch

When one of New York's biggest and most liberal institutions gets into the business of union-busting, it's hardly an internal matter.

Sep 15, 2005 / Andrew Ross

Teaching 9/11 Teaching 9/11

How do you tell a student the story of September 11?

Sep 8, 2005 / Feature / Jon Wiener

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