Making government service the first choice for more college students
Taking a page from the recruiting playbooks of finance, consulting, and tech.
One graduation for all or add-on ceremonies for minority students?
What is done at flagship public universities and at top-rated private schools?
Inaugural flunks education history, limits aspirations
In an address that otherwise reprised many of the noblest principles from this country's history, President Obama's remarks on education offered only a bleak vision of schools as training grounds for employers. Neither the principle that a good education is an essential requisite for developing active citizens nor the idea that education has intrinsic value independent of its utility in the job market made it into the speech.
“Class Dismissed”
An interview with Professor John Marsh on the limits of education as a tool for eliminating inequality and poverty in the United States. Other responses, Marsh says, are more effective, including redistribution through higher wages or social programs.
And the school segregation comes from...
The New York Times just documented the continuing existence of an intense level of racial segregation in schools in New York City. But scant attention was paid to the still-entrenched pattern of housing segregation that afflicts New York and many other metropolitan areas, a pattern that is a critical driver of segregation in schools.
Mainstream economists on the defensive
Do economics departments exclude diverse perspectives and fail to foster critical thinking skills? A dozen prominent economists confront the charge.