Education

The End of Sociology?

The tradition by which public intellectuals hope to resurrect sociology asks compelling questions

  • John H. Summers

What Makes Schools Work?

Why private-school tuition vouchers are not the answer.

  • Richard D. Kahlenberg
  • Bernard Wasow
with responses from
  • William A. Galston
  • Richard J. Murnane
  • Reg Weaver
  • Joseph P. Viteritti
  • Amy Hanauer
  • Deborah Meier

The Patriot Act on Campus

Defending the university after 9/11

  • Jonathan R. Cole

Educating a Democracy

The demands of the 21st century, as well as the demands of democratic life, are best met by preserving plural definitions of a good education.

  • Deborah Meier
with responses from
  • Abigail Thernstrom
  • Bob Chase
  • Gary B. Nash
  • Linda Nathan
  • Richard J. Murnane
  • Bill Ayers
  • Theodore Sizer

In Defense of Poetry

Put the literature back into literary studies.

  • Marjorie Perloff

Reading, Writing, and Redbaiting

When McCarthy stalked the groves of academe.

  • Alan Wald

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Computer Science and Civil Courage

Are the questions we seek to answer to be dictated by the powerful few, or are they to be open to debate among citizens and scientists?

  • Joseph Weizenbaum

How Not to Teach Reading

  • John Holt

Ethnicity and Education

The politics of black education.

  • Tony Hill

I. A. Richards at Harvard

The most extraordinary teacher of poetry I ever encountered.

  • Helen Vendler
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