A teacher at an elite boarding school confronts her own confused leap up the ladder of class privilege.
education
Posted inHistory, Story
The Word Is ‘Nemesis’: The Fight to Integrate the National Spelling Bee
For talented black spellers in the 1960s, the segregated local spelling bee was the beginning and the end of the long road to Washington, D.C.
Posted inHistory
The Word Is ‘Nemesis’: The Fight to Integrate the National Spelling Bee
For talented black spellers in the 1960s, the segregated local spelling bee was the beginning and the end of the long road to Washington, D.C.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Reading List
Betsy DeVos’s Cynical Defense of the Trump Education Budget Cuts
The Education Secretary makes the case before Congress that “less money” becomes “more latitude.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Protect that Underwear Zone: Abstinence Only Sex Education
“When my state passed one of the most rigid abstinence-only sex education laws in the nation, I went back to school.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Free Education, or Freedom From Education? A Deep Dive Into DeVos
Journalist and public education advocate Jennifer Berkshire traveled to the heart of DeVos-land — the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan — to learn more about Betsy DeVos and her family’s life-long attempt to dismantle the “nanny state.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Holy Warriors Against the Welfare State
A trip to the DeVos seat of power in Michigan, home of evangelism and Amway.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized
What the Thousands of Calls Against Betsy DeVos Say About American Public Schools
Congress was inundated with thousands of phone calls from people urging their representatives to vote against Trump’s education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos. Given her poor performance during confirmation hearings, her lack of experience, and her history of supporting attempts to dismantle traditional public education, Americans had visceral, negative reaction to DeVos. But this defense of […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
High-Pressure Parenting
Parents spend far more time with their kids compared to previous generations. Are they driven by the pleasures of “quality time,” or by class anxiety?
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America’s Great Divergence
A growing earnings gap between those with a college education and those without is creating economic and cultural rifts throughout the country.