Our democracy sprouts in the nursery of public schools — where students grapple, together, with our messy history and learn to negotiate differences.
Tag: Education
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Education in America: School Is for Making Citizens
Public education requires lessons about history and also contact with and context about other Americans: who we are and what has made us.
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Pencil, chalk and first-aid kits: Ukrainian children return to school in the midst of war.
An estimated 2.8 million of the nation’s 6 million children have been forced from their homes because of the war. If they are fortunate enough to find a seat in a classroom, it will likely be in an unfamiliar town or city.
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Elite Universities Are Out of Touch. Blame the Campus.
Colleges should do more to integrate their physical presence seamlessly with the surrounding environment.