Monthly Archives For July 2008

Historical Progress?

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Despite what Americans have been hearing about the nation’s poor civics literacy, renowned education reformer Diane Ravitch suggests that, on historical subjects at least, civics education may have made “some headway.”

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Migration: Who Cares?

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Coming to the conclusion that migration should not be thought of as a distinctly national issue, two authors presented data on their research of metropolitan cities experiencing and influx of foreign-born immigrants.

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Speaking of Change…

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When 11 percent of Yale’s senior class, 10 percent of Georgetown’s and 9 percent of Harvard’s head off to teach at some of America’s most impoverished inner city schools for the next couple of years, something’s going on.

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