Last Call to Cut Child Poverty
Now that the dust is settling after midterm election results that surprised many pundits—who had probably not taken into account the sophistication of the US electorate in its understanding that current inflationary pressures and...
Sharing Study Abroad
The recent college admissions scandal has focused much of the nation on the competition for places at top U.S. universities, and the extreme measures that seemingly rational people will take to secure an advantage...
Learn Local, Think Global
Our concept of global education needs to adapt more quickly to the reality of our increasingly interconnected...
The Disintegration of Our Schools
Daniel Ward argues that expansion of the school voucher system could undermine integration
Growing up in a multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual environment is the basis for the establishment of the integrated society that most of...
Is the Internet Making Us Dumber? Lol, no.
Facebook posts and text messages are far from being bastions
of grammar. People’s communication online has an informal quality that is often
at odds with established linguistic rules, but Montreal-based linguist Gretchen
McCulloch says that it’s not...
Make the School Day Longer?
Will extra time in school help children make up for instruction lost because of the pandemic? The...
Vote Against Child Poverty
As we approach the midterm elections in the US, policies and agendas are being debated and scrutinized, but there is one issue on which nearly everyone can agree—the richest nation in the world should...
Flashing Red Over Reading
Results from the 2019 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) showed that reading scores for fourth- and eighth-graders in the U.S. have dropped since 2017, after several years of minimal upward progress, prompting cries...
A Letter of Apology and Hope from America to its People
To the people who gave me life,I have failed and hurt you. I have turned my back on my people when you needed me the most. And, in truth, I’ve tried to erase the...
Stop Overlooking English Learners
Deborah J. Short outlines a plan to invest and engage in English Learner education
In the past six months, we have heard the cry “DEFUND” in varied contexts, often as a call for social justice,...