Educators

For many years, Diane Ravitch was among the country’s leading conservative thinkers on education. The cure for what ailed the school system was clear, she believed: high-stakes standardized testing, national standards, accountability, competition, charters, and vouchers. Then Ravitch saw what happened when these ideas were put into practice and recanted her long-held views. The problem was not bad teachers or failing schools, as conservatives claimed, but poverty.

En los últimos setenta años, Estados Unidos —y el mundo— ha experimentado transformaciones que antes habrían tomado siglos. Industrias enteras han surgido y desaparecido. Las formas de trabajar, comunicarse, aprender y construir se han reinventado una y otra vez. Lo que antes era físico se volvió mecánico. Lo que era mecánico se convirtió en digital. Y ahora, lo que es digital se está volviendo inteligente.

From his days at Princeton University as a member of the faculty, dean, and provost, and his time as a faculty member and president at Harvard University, Neil L. Rudenstine has been uniquely positioned to observe the changes that have occurred in higher education over the past few decades. In...

A powerful and moving memoir about how the youth detention system is letting down our most desperate and damaged kids, and how one rookie teacher fought the system on their behalf. Explosive, heart-breaking, inspiring. What happens when your first teaching job isn't in a classroom - but in...

Een ode aan leraren, met persoonlijke verhalen over hun invloed op het onderwijs en de zoektocht naar betekenis tijdens de schooltijd, vol reflecties over groei, uitdagingen en hoop.