Vouchers–Phony Choice Vouchers–Phony Choice
Ever since the 1954 Brown decision outlawing "separate but equal" schools, various popular movements have upheld a vision of public schools as essential to democracy and have dem...
Feb 28, 2002 / Barbara Miner
Harvard Raps West Harvard Raps West
As the chairman of Artemis Records, the company that released Cornel West's CD, Sketches of My Culture, I considered criticizing Cornel for his association with Lawrence Summers,...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Danny Goldberg
For Her Own Good For Her Own Good
With the "family cap," the state says to welfare moms: no more babies!
Jan 17, 2002 / Feature / Karen Houppert
Reading Between the Lines Reading Between the Lines
The new education law is a victory for Bush--and for his corporate allies.
Jan 10, 2002 / Feature / Stephen Metcalf
Naming—and Un-naming—Names Naming—and Un-naming—Names
Critics of the war on terror—or even those who slightly question the Bush administration—may now find themselves on a list of members of a fifth column.
Dec 13, 2001 / Feature / Eric Scigliano
The War on Campus The War on Campus
Will academic freedom survive?
Nov 15, 2001 / Feature / David Glenn
Flunking the Tests Flunking the Tests
Democrats and Republicans alike are claiming the education bill as a victory. The national testing plan--mandating annual tests in grades three through eight, plus one in high sch...
Jun 21, 2001 / The Editors
Joe Hill Goes to Harvard Joe Hill Goes to Harvard
On May 8 twenty-three jubilant, grubby Harvard students left the offices of university president Neil Rudenstine after a twenty-one-day sit-in, the longest in Harvard's history. ...
Jun 14, 2001 / Feature / Jane Manners
Yale Bites Unions Yale Bites Unions
For God, country and the ruling class.
Jun 14, 2001 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein