For the first time I can recall, my children and I are on spring break the same week, which given that we are talking the coordination of three different systems, is Spring Break Convergence. It’s great to have our college junior home from the Northeast; on the downside, we cannot complain about the weather for [...]
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ column today is both a reminder and good discussion of the difference between labeling individuals as racists (or non-racists) and understanding that our history is one filled with racism: The idea that racism lives in the heart of particularly evil individuals, as opposed to the heart of a democratic society, is reinforcing to [...]
A quick note on today’s decision of the Florida Supreme Court that the legislature has the authority to set tuition for the state’s public universities. In 2002, voters approved a state constitutional amendment that created the Board of Governors as a constitutional body to manage the state’s universities. Several key supporters of that amendment were [...]
If anybody had time yesterday to browse the In the Public Interest collection of emails from the Foundation for Excellence in Education, it wasn’t me. I’ve read a few accounts, such as the one on Valerie Strauss’s blog, so the following is a short, initial impression based on someone else’s summary of a few items [...]
Technically, President Obama’s second term starts tomorrow at noon EST. Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in the president privately at the White House, perhaps as an extra rehearsal to make sure the public “swearing-in” on Monday goes off without a hitch. Below are five overlooked facts about Barack Obama and education: Barack Obama was [...]
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