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From the Blog
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History + Politics
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Arts + Letters
Frank Lloyd Wright on Education
Maria Popover of Brainpickings wrote a wonderful meditation on Frank Lloyd Wright, which included this quip on education: “The present education…
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Equity
NYC Mayor’s Remark Reveals How School Segregation Works Today
When the mayor recently said that school segregation was directly linked to housing segregation, commentators pointed to the city’s own…
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Civics
Learn Different: Silicon Valley Disrupts Education
Rebecca Mead of The New Yorker explores how technology and business worlds try to bring their expertise and passions to…
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Arts + Letters
Yet Another Reason to Visit the New York Public Library: Authors’ Locks of Hair?
That’s not a typo. As shared in this recent New Yorker article, the famed library has lots of odd artifacts…
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Health + Nutrition
Learning as Life-Giving
Spirituality and education are not often used in the same breath today, but perhaps they should be. Parker Palmer wrote…
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Arts + Letters
So, THAT is Where Letters Come From!
Etymology is one thing, but to look at the historical roots of letters themselves is just pure alphabetic joy.
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Literacy
Eddie Izzard on the Wonders (and Laughs) of Bilingualism
Language isn’t just words, it’s social and cultural. In education, teaching language (and through language) means taking time to understand…
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Culture
In the Wake of Yesterday’s School Shooting, Look Up “Kakistocracy”
When children don’t succeed in school, kakistocrats blame the teacher. When children don’t survive in school (like yesterday’s shooting in…
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Project: States of Education
Unlike any other country to which the United States is compared, we do not define the right to public education at a national level. It’s not in the federal Constitution, nor the Bill of Rights. Instead, public education was a bit of an afterthought, inserted into state constitutions beginning well after the birth of the country. The result? We have 50 different definitions for the purpose of and right to public education. No wonder it’s so challenging to effect change. How does YOUR state define the right to public education? Tom made an interactive map to help you find out.
