Education

Lost in Translation

Schools in Nepal increasingly use English as the language of instruction. But in the name of preparing them for a globalized world, non-mother-tongue education often fails the students it aims to help.

  • Eleanor Hildebrandt

Pink and Blue

Many young children become obsessed with gender. How do we know which are trans?

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

What’s in a Name?

Yale’s president can’t make something less racist by fiat.

  • Karléh Wilson

What Is Education For?

Above all, preparing students for civic and political engagement.

  • Danielle Allen
with responses from
  • Carlos Fraenkel
  • Deborah Meier
  • Michel DeGraff
  • Debra Satz
  • Lelac Almagor
  • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
  • Lucas Stanczyk
  • Rob Reich
  • Clint Smith

The Sweet Life of Sidney Mintz

Remembering one of the century’s great anthropologists and teachers.

  • Sarah Hill

Get Carbon Off Campus

A Reply to David G. Victor

  • Benjamin Franta

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Black Study, Black Struggle

The university is not an engine of social transformation. Activism is.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley
with responses from
  • Derecka Purnell
  • Randall L. Kennedy
  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • Christopher Lebron
  • Barbara Ransby
  • Shana L. Redmond
  • Charlene Carruthers
  • Aaron Bady
  • Michael Eric Dyson
  • Amanda Boston
  • Bridget Todd
  • Thabisile Griffin

Carbon on Campus

Does fossil fuel divestment work?

  • David G. Victor

Our Own Private Disaster

Terrible Schools Are Great for Business

  • Erik Loomis

To Hell with Good Intentions

School reform is failing America’s children.

  • Rob Reich

Football on the Corporate Campus

Big-money college sports are symptomatic of larger shifts in the moral economy of higher education.

  • Robert L. Kehoe III

What SAT Critics Miss

By and large, admissions tests register rather than create inequality.

  • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Responding to Stress in the Student Brain

Living in an extremely stressful home environment has profound long-term consequences for cognitive growth.

  • Ari Comart

Democratic Science

We can resolve the contradiction between popular government and top-down decision making by engaging citizens in science and science funding.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

The Rise of the University Museum

Can campus galleries save the art museum?

  • Alana Shilling-Janoff

How Vocabulary Tests Get It Wrong

Many social research tools are in flux. Words come and go.

  • Claude S. Fischer

The Rhetoric of the “Achievement Jump”

Grades” and “scores” sound mechanical and impersonal, but “achievement” climbs and soars.

  • Colin Vanderburg

Standardized Testing Can be Good

But only if we put students first.

  • Lelac Almagor

Campus Gun Control Works

Despite recent shootings, schools, including college campuses, exemplify the success of gun control.

  • Evan DeFilippis

The Broken Higher Ed Compact

As Policy Works Against Them, Low-Income Students Struggle to Complete College

  • Mike Rose

Women and Children First

Dora Russell and the evolution of feminisim.

  • Judith Levine

Trench Democracy in Schools #2: An Interview with Helen Beattie

Deepening student engagement through collaborative action.

  • Albert W. Dzur

Schools and Citizens

The failure of corporate reform.

  • Robin West

Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

What advocates of market-based reform miss.

  • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
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