As adolescent cynicism has given way to a deep hope for change, students are expressing their faith in the electoral system in the old fashioned way: they are participating in it.
Christopher Fink | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home
Many children have been learning about and engaged with this election. This is sure to have an affect on our children's sense of civic responsibility to vote and care about our democracy as they grow up.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
By raising our standards of what we expect from our students and preparing them to be globally competitive, we make our best investment in America's future.
Cheryl Lubin | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home
As a high school teacher who dips into my own wallet to buy paper and pencils for students in the second largest school district in the land, I recognize the dangers of a pro-voucher McCain administration. Vouchers are not, as Obama so succinctly put it, the panacea for failing schools.
Elaine Hall | Posted 10.24.2008 | Living
We found that Obama speaks for all people who cannot speak. Who do not have a voice, literally and figuratively. Somehow, some way, my son with severe autism had picked up this truth.
Mary Lou Song | Posted 10.24.2008 | Living
I hope and pray that the problems that are eating up our economy will not start chewing on educational finances. If it does, this will be the downfall of our country.
Darryle Pollack | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
Bush represented the end of an era; women like me represented the beginning of a new one. I stepped onto the Yale campus only months after Bush left it.
Marc Lampkin | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
When was the last time a teachers' union sued to demand higher academic standards? When has a teachers' union ever demanded more accountability in our classrooms?
Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business
Public investments in basic research and education have been our most reliable economic engine. And yet in recent years we have failed to maintain that engine and to refill our tank.
Jennifer Bogut | Posted 10.22.2008 | Home
The results of the third in the "Here's My Take" series, where we pose a question and get YOUR take on it. The issue we worked on in this post was "Your Administration: The First 100 Days".
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.22.2008 | Business
We need to make communities strong again. Our local money does not need to be mixed in with some guy's hedge fund abstract tranche of nothing all to make a fee for some banker in New York.
Katherine Ryder | Posted 10.21.2008 | Business
It's both an unnerving and comforting thought that so much of university higher education -- in America and now in the U.K. -- sits squarely in the lap of the market.
Lucia Brawley | Posted 10.21.2008 | Living
In Mordecai, a tough, brilliant little kid and I saw up-close the precarious fate of millions of American children who might evolve into great artists or great criminals, at the flip of a coin.
LA Times | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics
Reported from Moscow, Idaho -- What can we learn about our political stars from impressions they made in college? Sen. John McCain is remembered as a...
Bill Scher | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
Much of the pundit class may not have recognized it, but that debate is percolating. And the progressive view of responsible, long-term public investment is winning.
Jane Devin | Posted 10.20.2008 | Home
In the political dialogue of soccer moms, bubbas, the liberal elite, family values, Joe Six-Packs, and the omnipresent nuclear family, the poor have all but become invisible. It's not trendy to talk about the poor in an age dominated by bootstrap philosophies, plastic surgery, jogging suits, and positive thinking mantras.
Dan Brown | Posted 10.20.2008 | Living
Classrooms are ready-made for great stories. Comprised of twenty-some children and one adult, bound by a common mission, they are intersections of you...
Cornelia Grumman | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
The tidal wave of post-debate fact-checking ignored a subtle misunderstanding near the end of Wednesday's presidential debate. But no wonder, the issue was early education -- a forgotten stepchild of this presidential campaign.
Auburn McCanta | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home
How did our "village" go so wrong that a seven-year old girl would think a respected American senator and presidential candidate is the equivalent of the Bogey Man under the bed? Where did she get the notion that people of the Muslim faith are to be feared rather than embraced?
Thomas M. Kostigen | Posted 10.15.2008 | Green
By Thomas M. Kostigen We often hear that the next generation must be saved from the effects we've waged on the environment. But how about teaching th...
Erika Szostak | Posted 10.14.2008 | Home
In an exclusive interview, a UCLA Graduate School of Education Professor discusses the differing educational policies of the presidential candidates. McCain stresses school choice and "educational mobility" while Obama talks about expanding the overall education budget.
Erica Jong | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics
What is the problem with a mixed economy: part capitalist, part socialist? We have had such an economy since the Great Depression and World War II. Why does the word "socialist" make us quake?
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...
Education Week | Dakarai I. Aarons | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, chaired from 1995 to 1999 by Barack Obama, is being portrayed by some critics of the Democratic presidential nominee ...
Michael Tonello | Posted 10.10.2008 | Living
I got a form letter email from the Obama campaign yesterday. I get a lot of emails from the Obama campaign. This one caught my eye. I was supposed ...
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Michael Roth | Posted 10.31.2008 | Home