Two leaders within the Venezuelan student movement, Yon Goicoechea and Gustavo Tovar, discuss how their movement has will promote liberty within Chavez’ repressive state.
Articles By: Bethany Stotts
New Leaders, New Funding?
A new, experimental policy discussed this week at the Center for American Progress (CAP) suggests reforming schools from the top down through engaged, talented principals.
School-Sponsored Smut
If high schools are sensitive about assigning Mark Twain’s great classic, Huckleberry Finn, due to its pejorative language, then why is Deerfield High promoting Angels in America?
Covering Education in 2008
Although a compelling issue in the 2000 elections, educational issues have been eclipsed by security concerns in the War on Terror and growing fears about America’s global competitiveness.
Cuba’s Not So Bright Future
With the transition of Cuban leadership from Fidel Castro to his brother, Raúl, academics have started speculatin about the future of the Cuban system, namely, whether the transition will birth a democratic movement.
A Conservative in the Academy
If the common saying, “if you are young and not liberal, then you have no heart; but if you are old and not conservative, then you have no brain,” holds true, then why are our academies littered with aging Marxists and radical feminist professors?
Excusing Berkeley
Oakley ignores an important aspect of the Act’s inception when he insinuates that the Semper Fi Act has the end goal of reducing earmarks. Rather, the Act is likely another attempt by legislators to extend the powers of the Solomon Amendment.
CPAC Campus Victories
At the 2008 CPAC, leaders of the conservative movement urged students and others to stand up for their principles and remain united.
Behind the School Safety Movement
“Safety” for these coalition members seems strikingly similar to silencing oppositional perspectives on sexuality and substituting sexually “unbiased” connotations for the traditional American conception of family.
AmeriCorps Blowup
Magree that America needs significant educational reform. For Center for American Progress (CAP) affiliates, at least, the front lines of that reform start with the AmeriCorps.