Racial Justice 101 Racial Justice 101
In a presidential election year, few issues inspire more citizen anguish and less political substance than public education. This year is no exception.
May 18, 2000 / Editorial / The Editors
The Details of Life The Details of Life
This article is adapted from Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope (Crown).
May 3, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Kozol
The New U The New U
While the public has been napping, the American university has been busily reinventing itself.
Mar 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp
Education and the Election Education and the Election
By now most of us accept as almost inevitable the idea that education, meaning school reform and access to college, is at or near the top of the political agenda, both in the sta...
Feb 16, 2000 / Feature / Peter Schrag
An Antisocial Idea An Antisocial Idea
Just because the ed whiz-biz politicians and the education bureaucrats have announced the end of "social promotion" doesn't mean that it ever existed--not for the past thirty yea...
Feb 16, 2000 / Feature / Susan Ohanian
Standardized Schools Standardized Schools
Wielding high-stakes tests, a noisy alliance of politicians, corporate CEOs and media pundits seems intent on standardizing education, proclaiming that every kid in America shoul...
Sep 30, 1999 / Editorial / Susan Ohanian
Inherit an Ill Wind Inherit an Ill Wind
Way down in Georgia last month, REM lead singer Michael Stipe paused in the middle of a solo during a rock concert because he had Kansas on his mind.
Sep 16, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Larry Witham and Edward Larson
Students for Sale Students for Sale
Research support was provided by the Open Society Institute and the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.
Sep 9, 1999 / Feature / Steven Manning
Weird Science Weird Science
My first thought upon hearing that the Kansas state education board had removed evolution from its mandatory curriculum was: Go ahead! Be like that! Handicap your kids for life.
Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Education of Mike Milken The Education of Mike Milken
"'Gotta go to Moraga!' That's what everybody says," notes a visitor to the Oz-like place where the American educational revolution is being plotted: "That's the code word for go...
Apr 15, 1999 / Feature / Russ Baker