I visited my old high school in the Lee-Miles neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, not long ago. It was hard to believe that it has been forty-three years since I walked its halls. For the most part, John F. Kennedy High School, a fortress-like brown-brick building devoid of any architectural flair, looks very much as it […]
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Posted inBooks, Education, June/July/August 2014, K-12, Magazine
Making School Choice Work
Two D.C. schools, a traditional public and a nonunionized charter, are experimenting with socioeconomic integration.
Posted inEducation, June/July/August 2014, K-12, Magazine
The Unkindest Cut
The visionary guidance counselor in a poor urban high school discovers why some top colleges don’t want even his best students: money.
Posted inEducation, January/February 2014, K-12, Magazine
Class Conscious
How high schools condition students to accept their lot.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, K-12, Magazine, November/December 2013
How to Build a Better Launch Pad for Young Americans
A commonsense plan that Congress can pass now.
Posted inBooks, Education, July/August 2013, K-12, Magazine
Union City Blues
How a poor New Jersey town and its teacher’s unions turned around its schools.
Posted inBooks, Education, July/August 2013, K-12, Magazine
A for Effort
Other countries’ schools outperform ours by following a philosophy that is—or ought to be—very American: innate talent is less important than sheer drive.
Posted inBooks, Education, January/February 2013, K-12, Magazine
Class No Longer Dismissed
Why some conservatives are warming to socioeconomic school integration.
Posted inBooks, Education, K-12, Magazine, September/October 2012
First-Rate Temperaments
Liberals don’t want to admit it, and conservatives don’t want to pay for it, but building character—resilience, optimism, perseverance, focus—may be the best way to help poor students succeed.
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Special Report: The Next Big Test
A new wave of school reform is about to break. Will it change classrooms for the better?
