Archive for the ‘Public-Private’ category
Christopher Lasch on the Common Schools
April 2, 2007Richrd Kahlenberg on James Coleman
March 15, 2007On Education
January 18, 2007The 500-Pound Gorilla
October 25, 2002by Alfie Kohn PHI DELTA KAPPAN October 2002 The best reason to give a child a good school. . .is so that child will have a happy childhood, and not so that it will help IBM in competing with Sony. . . There is something ethically embarrassing about resting a national agenda on the basis [...]
Max Weismann interviews Mortimer Adler, 1995
August 19, 1995Only Adults Can Be Educated Mortimer Adler was a high school dropout at age 15; yet for more than 60 years his name has been synonymous with education — teaching and learning. Now at 93 years of age he persists in exhorting us to understand the distinction between schooling and education, as well as, the [...]
