Or, actually, not: The nation’s 9-year-olds and 13-year-olds are posting better scores in math and reading tests than their counterparts did 40 years ago, and the achievement gap between white students and those of color still persists but is narrowing, according to new federal government data...
Two additional Gettysburg bits. First, on this week's Foreign Entanglements I talk with Kevin Levin of Civil War Memory about Gettysburg and historical memory: Second, my contribution to the Diplomat.
Since I had the game on while finishing up some work and it was at least meaningful to the Diamondbacks, I thought I should let you know about Kirk Gibson's.
I have a rather strong objection to the term "pay it forward" that is based entirely upon Kevin Spacey sabotaging his own career by starring in New Agey vehicle after New Agey vehicle in the early to mid 2000s, including one by the name above. However,...
The labor historian Dana Frank has a wonderful if disturbing essay on learning Spanish through experiencing and then fighting against the Honduran coup that took place in 2009. Frank is.
Not all adjuncts at CUNY are being paid at subsistence level: David H. Petraeus will earn a $150,000 salary when he joins the City University of New York’s Macaulay Honors.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but my impression is that we've seen a little less of the backlash argument in response to Windsor than usual. Even from the right, invocations of the public rising up against judicial tyranny seem to be more hope than prediction. But it's...
I was interviewed for this Jake Blumgart article at Alternet on attempts by United Students Against Sweatshops and others in the U.S. to hold apparel corporations accountable for the terrible.
On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a free African-American living in Charleston, South Carolina, was executed for his role in leading a purported slave rebellion. This event marked a significant.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ranks among the worst shows on television. Not because of the acting -- though the fact that Richard Belzer's been going through John Munch's motions since 1993 has been obvious for about a decade now -- but because it's all...
You know that ongoing decline in humanities enrollments that you're heard so much about that? Well, the World's Most Dangerous Postmodern Opponent of Truth, Beauty and Reason would like to.
Today is the 150th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. I'll have a Bloggingheads diavlog with Kevin Levin up shortly; until then... Five lessons from Gettysburg.