Posts Tagged education
Shortchanging Students
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth on January 24th, 2012
Okay, okay … I may be beating the proverbial dead horse here, but yesterday, a colleague shared an article written by the the president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, bemoaning the continuing elevation of what I’ve called “credentialing” over the sort of broad, liberal education that Americans used to recognize as an ideal. [...]
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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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A Constitutional Culture
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Constitution on January 23rd, 2011
In the wake of the horrific shooting in Tucson last month, PBS’ Mark Shields made an “only in America” observation. “This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a [...]
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A Perfect Storm
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth on December 24th, 2009
Sometimes, a “perfect storm” of problems forces us to make much-needed changes that are politically impossible in normal times. Perhaps—just perhaps—this is one of those times when we can use a few of the fiscal lemons we are being handed to make policy lemonade. Storm number one is revenue. Indiana is in a world of [...]
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