Education / Youth
Food for (Much) Thought
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth on November 18th, 2011
This morning, I’m turning my space over to my son Stephen, who’s own blog post this morning offers much food for thought.
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Ignorance on Parade
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth on October 17th, 2011
Words fail. Is this what America is becoming–a society where the search for knowledge that is ultimately what makes us human–is displaced by training for worker ants?
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But What About the Children?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth, Public Policy and Governance on September 29th, 2011
I see where a federal judge has upheld the part of Alabama’s harsh new immigration law that requires public schools to check the immigration status of all students. This is one more effort to punish the children of undocumented immigrants. What I find particularly galling about laws like this, and opposition to the Dream Act [...]
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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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