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The Negro Child – His Self-Image
This talk was delivered October 16, 1963, as “The Negro Child – His Self-Image”; originally published in The Saturday Review, December 21, 1963, reprinted in The Price of the Ticket,… Read more
Should the government help fight obesity? The next Slate/Intelligence Squared debate is on Feb. 7.
Watch—and participate in—the Slate/Intelligence Squared live debate on Feb. 7. Doctors and public policy officials across the country have sounded the alarm about the obesity epidemic. More than one-third of American… Read more
The “education crisis” myth
By David Sirota – Ignore the media spin. Wages and working conditions — not skills — are the real reasons jobs get outsourced Has the term “education” become a code… Read more
A Civil Right to a Good Education
Jack Jennings – American schools are not as good as they need to be, according to President Obama, the Republican presidential candidates, business leaders, and many others. It has not… Read more
Bobby Jindal touts education proposals, knocks union leader
Gov. Bobby Jindal delivered his education stump speech to a packed hotel ballroom in Baton Rouge on Monday. He plugged his main talking points on vouchers, tenure reform and charter… Read more
2 education voucher bills could be headed for floor votes
Two voucher bills could be moving to the floor of the state Senate for a vote. Senate Bill 87 and House Bill 181 passed out of the Senate Education Committee… Read more
Obama campaign rolls out Square mobile fundraising platform
The Obama reelection campaign is providing headquarters staff, field organizers and volunteers the ability to take campaign donations with their mobile phones. Campaign personnel are being issued Square mobile credit… Read more
Who is Certain?
by Colin Hannaford – Most human societies have imagined God to be in human form. Most have agreed to be told how God wants them to behave. I have proposed… Read more
For-Profit College Executives Make Much More Than Their Higher Education Counterparts
For-profit colleges have been in the hot seat over the past two years, with the federal government and more than a dozen state attorneys general probing fraudulent recruiting tactics and… Read more
FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail
The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices… Read more
