Education / Youth
Threshold Questions
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth on September 18th, 2011
In this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Joe Nocera has the sort of superficially thoughtful opinion piece that increasingly characterizes America’s “chattering classes.” The essay is a defense of for-profit colleges. Nocera acknowledges the obvious: such colleges enroll only 12% of the nation’s college students, but gobble up 25% of all federal student aid; fewer [...]
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Failing Econ 101
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth, Public Policy and Governance on September 13th, 2011
If I had any doubts whatsoever about the pitiful state of economic literacy in this country, yesterday provided a perfect example. I was reviewing a paper submitted by a student to one of our faculty members. He had given her a poor grade, and she argued that she deserved higher marks. I am the Program [...]
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The Value of Pontificating
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth on August 6th, 2011
I’ve been scanning the local news I missed during the past month, and duly noted coverage of a recent speech by Melina Kennedy on education. Kennedy (no relation–honest!) has focused her mayoral campaign on public safety, education and economic development, and has been delivering substantive proposals on those and related issues. In her education speech, [...]
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Civic Literacy: Charting the Dimensions and Consequences of a Civic Deficit
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Academic Papers, Education / Youth on June 6th, 2011
Sheila Suess Kennedy Professor of Law & Public Policy Erin Braun, MPA Student Adriene Tynes, MPA Student School of Public & Environmental Affairs Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Abstract Available data gives evidence of a widespread lack of constitutional competence and civic literacy in the United States. The consequences of this ignorance are profound; the [...]
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