Raising Up Youth Raising Up Youth
Insure funding for programs with proven success rehabilitating violent youths and avoid the failures of the prison system.
Jan 19, 2006 / Feature / Diane Watson
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
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
Who’s Next? Who’s Next?
Military recruiters are targeting the nation's high schools and junior highs, seeking an early harvest of soldiers-to-be. Is your child next?
Aug 25, 2005 / Feature / Karen Houppert
Hip-Hop Voting Bloc? Hip-Hop Voting Bloc?
If everything goes according to plan, a voting bloc as influential as the religious right, but progressive, could be established.
Aug 22, 2005 / Feature / Adam Howard
Grim Fairy Tales Grim Fairy Tales
It seemed too bizarre to be anything but apocryphal, but, hey, I heard it on NPR: William Poole, a high school junior from Kentucky, was taken into custody and charged with threa...
Mar 10, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Everyday Struggle Everyday Struggle
A talk with hip-hop historian Jeff Chang.
Mar 1, 2005 / Feature / Mark Hatch-Miller
Dazed and Confused Dazed and Confused
Perhaps no cultural phenomenon has been as successful at demonizing alcohol as MTV's The Real World. Watch it sometime. You'll never want to drink again.
Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Suzy Hansen
Music for Change Music for Change
Springsteen's got it right: No retreat.
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Toomey and Rob Rosenthal