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
Genes, Genius, Genies Genes, Genius, Genies
The right has ushered in a moment of cult celebrity for the pre-born. But let's not be seduced by this idea of personhood. Remember the poor and not-so-perfect post-born children ...
Nov 3, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
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
Failing Students, Rising Profits Failing Students, Rising Profits
The Community Education Partners (CEP) serves students the public schools don't want--and it makes millions.
Sep 1, 2005 / Feature / Annette Fuentes
Teaching Sexuality Teaching Sexuality
Efforts to suppress the sex ed curriculum in Maryland are working.
Aug 17, 2005 / Liliana Segura
Louisiana Purchase Louisiana Purchase
A program in Louisiana that was founded to discourage teens from having sex encourages them to engage in politics.
Aug 11, 2005 / Feature / Sharon Lerner
Brooklyn Prof in Godless Shocker Brooklyn Prof in Godless Shocker
People who believe in academic freedom should denounce CUNY's treatment of an atheist professor.
Jun 9, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt