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House Democrats propose to spend $80 billion helping states keep schools afloat. California needs it, now
By Andrew Leonard
January 14, 2009
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Colleges discriminate against rich white kids from the Northeast! Oh, the scandal!
By Amy Benfer
January 13, 2009
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New infrastructure will become so many bridges to nowhere unless Obama saves human-needs budgets and public-sector jobs.
By Mike Davis
November 21, 2008
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In HBO's imported Australian hit "Summer Heights High," comedian Chris Lilley tackles high school in all of its absurd, disturbing glory.
By Heather Havrilesky
November 7, 2008
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Sherman Alexie, Joan Blades, Robert Dallek, Greil Marcus, Dan Savage and others weigh in on Obama's historic presidential win.
November 6, 2008
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Should students in the bottom 50 percent of their class even bother going to college?
By Amy Benfer
October 28, 2008
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What turns an angry, alienated teen into a school shooter -- and what can we do it about it?
By Laura Miller
September 10, 2008
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How do we know what we know? A new book takes a long view of knowledge, from ancient oral traditions to the rise of universities and the Internet.
By Laura Miller
August 28, 2008
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You! says Sandra Tsing Loh, whose hilarious "Mother on Fire" is a rallying cry for urban parents who can't afford a fancy private institution.
By Amy Reiter
August 19, 2008
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Richard Kahlenberg sorts out the two big new education coalitions recently formed, and explains why Barack Obama should listen to both.
By Ed Kilgore
July 11, 2008
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I'm lucky, I know I'm lucky, but I don't feel lucky. I just feel burdened.
By Cary Tennis
May 30, 2008
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My friend is considering teaching "young earth" creationism in his school, and I think I'm going to vomit.
By Cary Tennis
May 15, 2008
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How important is education in a relationship, and can we be happy if he is less ambitious than I am?
By Cary Tennis
April 9, 2008
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Nothing, actually. Aside from our panic that the Internet is melting their brains.
By Amy Goldwasser
March 14, 2008
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Our country is barely smarter than a fifth grader -- no wonder it's drowning in religious fundamentalism and political ideologues on both sides, argues Susan Jacoby.
By Laura Miller
February 15, 2008
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No Child Left Behind has plenty of flaws, but throwing it out because it's a Republican plan is morally disgusting.
By Garrison Keillor
January 30, 2008
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In their own dark and funny words, four teenage girls tell us everything we need to know about sex, parents and gym class.
By Carey Dunne, Eliza Appleton, Emma Considine, Deborah Kim
November 7, 2007
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Her campaign-trail game is in top form and her lead in the polls is widening. But will voters think she's on cruise control?
By Michael Scherer
October 13, 2007
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Is Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's new homemaking curriculum a shrewd way to train future conservative warriors?
By Carol Lloyd
October 12, 2007
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Patrick Henry College grooms fundamentalist kids to be America's future leaders. A new book looks at how these elite students cope with the pressure to bridge secular and religious worlds.
By Elizabeth Svoboda
September 6, 2007
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Jonathan Kozol, author of "Letters to a Young Teacher," talks with Salon about why No Child Left Behind squelches learning and about reading Rilke's sonnets to first graders.
By Matthew Fishbane
August 30, 2007
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Danica McKellar, of "Wonder Years" fame, tells girls that math can support their shopping habit.
By Carol Lloyd
August 6, 2007
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For six years, Republicans let lenders rake in millions with inflated interest rates.
By Julia Dahl
May 28, 2007
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Will the courts stop the federal funding of programs that give kids medically inaccurate information about sex?
By Carol Lloyd
April 26, 2007
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Not really getting the message, vandals and school administrators seek to silence the national Day of Silence.
By Carol Lloyd
April 19, 2007
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