America’s “cheapest” colleges in HuffPost
Huffington Post’s “College” tab has a photo feature on a dozen “cheap” four-year colleges and graduate schools. (My good friend Louis Swayne always reminds me that “inexpensive” is a less judgmental term.) Some of the colleges, such as Cooper Union and the Curtis Institute, are expensive places that have enough endowment or philanthropic money to […]
Do Advanced Placement classes make a school stronger?
The story of Stand and Deliver teacher Jaime Escalante, who died this week, had an enormous effect on the career of Jay Mathews, the longtime Washington Post reporter who writes the Class Struggle blog on the Post’s Web site. Mathews wrote a book about Escalante and, ever since, he has extolled the benefits of rigorous […]
Texas Tea Party Standards
Don McElroy, the Texas state school board member who has been the most vocal proponent of new school social studies standards that many historians say are skewed to fit conservative views about Christianity and government, assured a Tea Party gathering that Washington would not take over their schools. But a small town schools superintendent in […]
What’s harder to get into than Harvard? Some overstretched community colleges
On or about April 1st, it’s impossible not to see a flurry of stories about how, once again, it’s getting harder than ever to get accepted to Harvard University and other Ivy League and elite schools. After all, those are the schools that most Americans attend, right? Not even close, which is one reason why […]
