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The education quotation of the year (seven months early)

Too often in education, public figures tiptoe around issues that might cause controversy. I therefore was pleased to see New York City school system chancellor Joel Klein break loose and deliver a...

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Is it good parenting to encourage your kid to drop out of high school?

A reader just sent me a column entitled, “My Daughter’s a High-School Dropout and I’m Totally Okay With It,” and asked for my thoughts. The author, a teacher at the UC-Berkeley extension campus and...

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Do America’s students deserve a bailout?

In Sunday’s Washington Post, George Will has a thought-provoking column entitled, “Why should education be exempt from recession budgeting?” In it, he decries the possibility of a $23 billion “bailout”...

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Mad at Texas? No worries…it’s California to the rescue!

Plenty of people are still steamed at the Texas State Board of Education for the controversial changes it made recently to the state’s K-12 history standards. This is not just because of the content of...

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Should plumbers and hairdressers go to college?

Are college and blue-collar jobs incompatible? As we’ve gone through economic crisis over the past few years, I’ve gotten the feeling that more and more people think they are. In the ongoing...

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When is it too early to say, “Your child is failing”?

In my experience, most people tend to believe that, in their early years, children should grow and develop at their own pace. Even the No Child Left Behind Act, often criticized for putting too much...

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Letter to an unemployed teacher

Yesterday I received an e-mail from a reader, a young woman in New York City who went to an excellent university and has a master’s degree in teaching, but is currently unemployed. She asked if I had...

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Why every parent should watch Adam Sandler’s new movie

I recently saw the movie Grown Ups, in which Adam Sandler’s character reunites at a lake cabin with some childhood friends. As a comedy, it’s a decent flick. But I think its real value lies in its...

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What should happen to college kids who are illegal immigrants?

In recent weeks, debate has heated up around the issue of immigration–from proposed legislation in Arizona to deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants who are born on U.S. soil, to a small...

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Signing off: The final Report Card

As many of you probably know from visiting True/Slant over the past couple of months, the site recently was purchased by Forbes. Lots of changes are in store, one of them being that the services of...

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