Mark Zuckerberg is giving $120 million to Bay Area schools (after his last education reform effort didn’t go so well)
The world’s most innovative community shouldn’t also be a home for struggling public schools. Today Priscilla and I are announcing a $120 million commitment to support efforts to improve education for underserved communities in the Bay Area. That begins an op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News written by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla […]
Is the $1 trillion student loan debt really a crisis? — Part 2
Earlier this month I published a post titled “Is the $1 trillion student loan debt really a crisis?” by Donald E. Heller, dean of the College of Education at Michigan State University, which sparked a lot of comments and questions. It started out this way: For the last couple of years, ever since the outstanding volume […]
The Answer Sheet 5-29-14
Answer Sheet: Utah high school alters girls’ yearbook photos to cover skin, remove tattooSome female students at a high school in Utah apparently broke the “modesty” standards for their yearbook and discovered that their photos had been changed digitally, with sleeves and necklines added to cover their skin, and a tattoo removed. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that some girls at Wasatch High Schoo