Shut Out: How the Cost of Higher Education Is Dividing Our Country

A few months ago, Bobby Stapleton, a 21-year-old student at the University of Michigan, received a phone call from his younger brother. The good news came first: a senior in high school, he, too, had been accepted by the university, the fourth sibling in his family to have the opportunity to make the move to Ann Arbor from rural Hemlock, Michigan.

The Global Teachers' Anthem

"Raise the threat level to a code red," they cry out.     

From Baghdad to D.C., a growing chorus of a-tonal anti-union executives around the world (the only choir that may be left after all the public school budget cuts) are asserting that the teacher union menace must be neutralized.  

The Rebirth of Education

A friend of mine, J.M. Zimmerman, once stated that to revitalize our schools, engage our children and ultimately save our planet will require "the death of education and its rebirth." Sometimes systems are so flawed that they need to be scrapped and replaced rather than fiddled with or fixed. 

The Dog Eats Its Tail: Oversized Classes, Overpopulated Prisons

One in thirty one.   

As a public school teacher I am quite familiar with this figure—it’s a typical teacher to student ratio in the classroom. But now that proportion has taken on new significance: A report released on March 2nd  by the Pew Center on the States found that one in every thirty-one adults reside in the US corrections system—now totaling some 7.3 million people.