Education is essential in our society. It is the foundation of our lives and while higher education can be important to furthering one’s career, general education is just as important. In fact, one would think that general education was the foundation for all knowledge being shared and absorbed. However, it seems that the things people […]
What is the real value of education? This may seem like a silly question with an obvious answer; however, the United States is in the middle of a crisis that calls these “obvious” answers into question. Americans have been burdened with $1.5 trillion in student debt and the educational system nor the workforce have delivered […]
Children from disadvantaged households and violent neighborhoods often do less well in school than peers from more economically comfortable backgrounds. Researchers have documented this repeatedly – in studies of individual children and through comparisons of schools, districts, states, and nations. Savage inequalities describe the striking differences between public schools serving students of color in urban […]