Education
(previously titled "Public Education in America:
The History, and Where We’re Headed")
The History, and Where We’re Headed")
In preparation for the discussion to be moderated by Edward J. Harris on November 6, 2013, search for some of the following:
K-12 education
Public higher education
- Horace Mann
- John Dewey
- Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 (part of LBJ’s “Great Society”)
- “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top” policies of Bush and Obama
- Khan Academy (online lessons)
Public higher education
- Morrill Act of 1855
- Higher Education Act of 1965
- Community colleges
- For-profit Higher Education, e.g. The University of Phoenix
- MOOCs such as edX, Coursera, Udacity
- University Without Walls @ UMass/Amherst online degree program for adults
Book Review:
- "College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education by Ryan Craig and The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey" by Janet Napolitano in "The Washington Post," March 15, 2015
- Carey, Kevin, The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere, 2015
- Craig, Ryan, College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education, 2015
- Putnam, Robert D., Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, 2015
- Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
- Colin Greer, The Great School Legend: a Revisionist Interpretation of American Public Education
- Westover, Tara, Educated: A Memoir, 2018
- "Perceptions are not reality: Things the world gets wrong," on Ipsos MORI, Oct 29, 2014
- "This Is How Scandinavia Got Great: The power of educating the whole person." by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Feb 13, 2020
- "Education Department opens investigation into foreign ties at Harvard and Yale" by Deirdre Fernandes in "The Boston Globe," Feb 12, 2020
- "Maybe US Education Isn’t So Terrible" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Dec 12, 2019
- "Bribes and Big-Time Sports: U.S.C. Finds Itself, Once Again, Facing Scandal" by Billy Witz, Jennifer Medina & Tim Arango in "The New York Times," March 14, 2019
- "Revolt at American University Where Pompeo Addressed Middle East" by Declan Walsh in "The New York Times," Feb 6, 2019
- "An update on Harvard’s diversity, inclusion efforts" by Alvin Powell in "The Harvard Gazette," Oct 1, 2018
- "Empowering Teenage Girls in a Traditional Village and Across Morocco" by Marjorie Olster in "The New York Times," Aug 17, 2018
- "A Plea for a Fact-Based Debate About Charter Schools" by David Leonhardt in "The New York Times," July 22, 2018
- "Betsy DeVos Loves Charter Schools. That’s Bad for Charter Schools." by Conor P. Williams by Ruchir Sharma in "The New York Times," June 2, 2018
- "Less cramming. More Frisbee. At Yale, students learn how to live the good life." by Susan Svrluga in "The Washington Post," May 12, 2018
- "A Generation Emerging From the Wreckage" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," March 1, 2018
- "The majority of Harvard’s incoming class is nonwhite" by Deirdre Fernandes in "The Boston Globe," Aug 3, 2017
- "The Demise of Academia in Erdogan’s Turkey" by Emre Celik on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," April 6, 2017
- "Save PBS. It Makes Us Safer." by Stanley McChrystal in "The New York Times," April 5, 2017
- "Schools should teach pupils how to spot 'fake news'" by Sean Coughlan on "BBC News," March 18, 2017
- "At 5, Girl Becomes Youngest To Qualify For National Spelling Bee" by Bill Chappell on "NPR," March 8, 2017
- "American Universities Must Take a Stand" by Leon Botstein in "The New York Times," Feb 8, 2017
- "Young Girls Are Less Apt To Think That Women Are Really, Really Smart" by Katherine Hobson on "npr.org," Jan 26, 2017
- "Betsy DeVos and God’s Plan for Schools" by Katherine Stewart in "The New York Times," Dec 13, 2016
- "I Am a Dangerous Professor" by George Yancy in "The New York Times," Nov 30, 2016
- “The Impression That You Exist” by Bailey Trela in "Harvard Magazine," Nov 21, 2016
- "Trump and Apocalyptic Thinking" by Lydia Lyle Gibson in "Harvard Magazine," Nov 10, 2016
- "Imperial Life on the Potomac" by digby on "Hullabaloo," March 27, 2007
- "The Center Can Still Hold" by Fareed Zakaria on "fareedzakaria.com," Sept 23, 2016
- "The University of Chicago is the first place that made me feel safe" by Yangyang Cheng on "medium.com," Aug 28, 2016
- "White House Admits Prison spending has grown 3x as fast as Education for Decades" by TeleSur on "Informed Comment," July 10, 2016
- "Welcome to the Exponential Age!" [possibly] by Udo Gollub [undated]
- "I Don't Want to be a Teacher Any More" by thalli1 on "Daily Kos," Feb 26, 2011
- "Straight from High School to a Career" by Katherine S. Newman & Hella Winston in "The New York Times," April 15, 2016
- "Humanities offer marketability in a competitive world" by Matthew DeShaw in "Harvard Gazette," March 4, 2016
- "Isn’t separate inherently unequal?" by Fareed Zakaria on "fareedzakaria.com" Nov 26, 2015
- "School vs. Society in America's Failing Students" by Eduardo Porter in "The New York Times," Nov 3, 2015
- "Lecture Me. Really." by Molly Worthen in "The New York Times," Oct 17, 2015
- "College Rankings Fail to Measure the Influence of the Institution" by James B. Stewart in "The New York Times," Oct 1, 2015
- "That 'Useless' Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech's Hottest Ticket" by George Anders in "Forbes," July 29, 2015
- "These 20 schools are responsible for a fifth of all graduate school debt" by Danielle Douglas-Gabriel in "The Washington Post," July 9, 2015
- "Minding the Gap," a discussion of the work of Robert D. Putnam in "Harvard Kennedy School Magazine," Winter 2015
- “The American Dream Is Leaving America” by Nicholas Kristof in "The New York Times," Oct 25, 2014
- "Study Finds Many Colleges Don’t Require Core Subjects Like History, Government" by Douglas Belkin in " The Wall Street Journal," Oct 15, 2014
- "The Inequality Problem" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Jan 16, 2014
- "Why Other Countries Teach Better, Why Students Do Better Overseas" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," Dec 17, 2013
- "After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought" by Tamar Lewin in "The New York Times," Dec 10, 2013
- "The Public Professor: Dissent in Commodified Higher Education" by Juan Cole in "Informed Comment," Dec 3, 2013
- "The 50th: Honoring the Memory of President John F. Kennedy," remarks by historian David McCullough in "The Dallas Morning News," Nov 22, 2013
- "The Shanghai Secret" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," Oct 22, 2013
- "Howard Gardner: ‘Multiple intelligences’ are not ‘learning styles’" by Valerie Strauss in "The Washington Post," Oct 16, 2013
- "The Pop! of the Wild," an article by Aaron Hirsh, Sept 8, 2013 (about MOOCs - Massive Open Online Courses)
- "In California, Push for College Diversity Starts Earlier" by Richard Pérez-Peña in The New York Times, May 7, 2013.
- "Two Cheers for Web U!," and opinion piece by A. J. Jacobs in The New York Times, April 20, 2013.
- "The Atlanta scandal: standardized testing and the corruption of US education," a post by Anne Campbell on TransparencyInternational, April 16, 2013.
- "Schools demanding news literacy lessons to teach students how to find fact amid fiction," by Lynh Bui in The Washington Post, April 15, 2013.
- "Teachers: Will We Ever Learn?" an opinion piece by Jal Mehta in The New York Times, April 12, 2013
- "Gap Widens for Faculty at Colleges, Report Finds" by Tamar Lewin in The New York Times, April 8, 2013
- "Multiple Intelligences" excerpt from "The Distance Learning Technology Resource Guide," by Carla Lane on tecweb.org [undated]