Education

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  • Gray turns green -- with cash

    Building more prisons, doling out pork and refusing to rethink the death penalty, California Gov. Gray Davis is confounding friends and enemies with his relentless pursuit of the middle.
    By Anthony York June 9, 2000

  • Education, homosexuality, the media and pop culture

    Readers write about academia and its disintegration, lesbians without personalities, Peter Pan syndrome among gay men and simpering nymphets of the Flockhart-Paltrow school.
    By Camille Paglia June 9, 2000

  • The curriculum crusades

    Progressive teaching practices don't work as well as a traditional focus on basic skills and a rigorous curriculum. So why do we still use them?
    By James Traub May 31, 2000

  • The charter school challenge

    Notes from two pioneering California charter schools -- one a success story, the other a failure.
    By Jonathan Schorr May 30, 2000

  • The charter school magnate

    With his controversial privately run schools, entrepreneur David Brennan pushes Ohio into the center of the school-choice debate.
    By Eve Pell May 24, 2000

  • Can these schools be saved?

    Salon's week-long look at the state of America's public schools
    By Joan Walsh May 22, 2000

  • Public schools, private choices

    Al Gore could have sent his son to Wilson High, a public school, but chose nearby Sidwell Friends, which is private. Here's a look at both.
    By Louis Freedberg May 22, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Readers take their best shot at vaccination controversy. Plus: Horowitz needs to learn ABCs of education; baseball seats are for the rich.
    April 21, 2000

  • You gotta have corazsn

    Bush puts his heart into education speeches and promises California Republicans he won't desert them.
    By Anthony York April 7, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Life isn't like the movies, Conason Plus: Who will vouch for vouchers? Men respond to essays on rape.
    March 30, 2000

  • Bush's answer: Send teachers, books and money

    But his plan immediately comes under fire by Gore, who a poll shows is losing the education issue to Bush.
    By Jake Tapper March 29, 2000

  • Vouchers and the law: The rebuttals

    In Round 2 of a Salon debate on school vouchers, our experts exchange barbs.
    By Daryl Lindsey March 28, 2000

  • Vouchers and the law

    Experts argue the constitutionality of the school reform movement's most controversial proposal.
    By Daryl Lindsey March 27, 2000

  • Deep in the heart of Clinton country

    George W. Bush travels to Arkansas' Central High School to tout his education platform.
    By Suzi Parker March 25, 2000

  • A child shoots a child

    It isn't about guns; it's about neglect.
    By Beth Broeker March 13, 2000

  • California makes its choices

    Money talks as voters say no to gay marriage, yes to cracking-down on juvenile crime and maybe to more money for schools.
    By Fiona Morgan March 8, 2000

  • Live from Los Angeles

    Bush, McCain and Keyes joust about death row, public schools and abortion, but avoid jokes about David Letterman's heart.
    By Anthony York March 3, 2000

  • We obsess, therefore we buy

    Parenting manuals multiply along with parental insecurities.
    By Karen Karbo March 1, 2000

  • When good governments go bad

    These pernicious moments brought to you by your elected leaders. PLUS: Sisterhood pyramid schemes, supermarket warfare and a man and his hooptie.
    By Jenn Shreve January 21, 2000

  • A swine in Harvard Yard

    David Mamet's children's book puts Ivy League angst in the heads of babes.
    By Alexandra Jacobs December 15, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Say what? Horowitz thinks Republicans are too NICE?! Plus: Grateful Dead producer defends cut-and-paste editing; marriage-savers are wrong about monogamy.
    Letters to the Editor December 3, 1999

  • The truth about Texas school reform

    Has George W. Bush made his state's education system a model for the nation?
    By Joan Walsh November 1, 1999

  • Dump the big bang, bring on the blue ox

    Kansas isn't going far enough with changes to its science curriculum
    By Vicki Rosenzweig October 11, 1999

  • No light in his attic

    For the tragic impact a "progressive," PC education has on minority students of great promise, look at the sad case of Harvard's Cornel West.
    By David Horowitz October 11, 1999

  • President of what?

    George W. Bush led the Delta Kappa Epsilon branding regime at my university. Now he wants to lead the free world.
    By Simon Rodberg October 6, 1999
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