Book Reviews
A More Principled Vision for Higher Learning
Jonathan Marks urges a recommitment to reason
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Advice and Caution on Investing in a College Education
An economist and a financial journalist offer their strategies
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To Critics of The Beautiful Tree, a Pearl of a Reply
Was that test on which the experiment depends taken in English or Telugu?
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Examining the Human Costs of a Narrow Meritocracy
Economic critique displays energy but not much evidence
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Effort to Debunk Education Technology Falters by Overstating Its Own Case
A sensible, but hardly novel, appeal for “methodological pluralism”
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A Utopian Gets Real About the Limits of Schooling
The Cult of Smart sends “educational equity” to the principal’s office.
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The Finlandization of New Orleans
Learning from the Big Easy’s success story is not so easy
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The Better of the Two Big Antiracism Bestsellers
Kendi’s How To Be An Antiracist lacks subtlety, but it beats White Fragility.
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Vouchers boost college going, but not for students in greatest need
“The 1619 Project” Enters American Classrooms
Adding new sizzle to education about slavery—but at a significant cost.
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State teacher-license prep materials peddle a debunked theory
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Threats to quality and innovation outweigh benefit of increased access.
