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What Warren Phillips and George Kelling Had in Common
The former Dow Jones CEO and the “Broken Windows” author both were memorable teachers at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Biden, Harris, on Campaign Trail, Press School Shooting Issue
“There was a high school student, a young woman, here after the event who was crying on my shoulder–crying big tears– because she has had to go through those drills and she is afraid,” Senator Kamala Harris said.
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Biden Backs Two Years of “Free” Community College
“Twelve years of education is not enough anymore,” Biden said during a midday event on May 13 in Hampton, N.H. He cited his wife, a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, as saying, “any country that out-educates us will out compete us.”
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What Michael Bennet Did for Denver’s Public Schools
A U.S. senator from Colorado, Michael Bennet, announced today that he is running for president.
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Newspaper Hit Piece on Charter Schools Misses The Mark
Reader hours, reporter time disappear into flawed journalistic experiment
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A Teacher Strike Even Conservatives Can Support
Teachers across Iran are holding sit-ins in their school principals’ offices to demand better pay, the right to form unions, and the freeing of all jailed teachers’ rights activists.
Opinion
How One ‘Ordinary’ Brooklyn High School Produced Six Nobel Laureates, a Supreme Court Justice, and Three Senators
The recent death of the distinguished political scientist Sidney Verba will be an occasion to reflect on his contributions to the field of political science and to Harvard University. What caught my eye, though, was where he went to high school.
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Latest Gates Letter Tackles Transition Away From Textbooks
Bill and Melinda Gates are out with their latest annual letter discussing their philanthropy, and a chunk of it relates to education.