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Education Week--Teachers Came Together to Strike. What Will Happen Next?
After a historic year in which scores of teachers walked out of their classrooms to protest low pay and lack of education funding, and many ran for political office, education organizers are asking: Where do we go from here?
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2018/12/12/teachers-came-together-to-strike-what-will.html
Madeline Will| December 10, 2018
New York Times--P.M. Forni, Who Argued for ‘Choosing Civility,’ Dies at 67
P.M. Forni, the director of the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, in his office in Baltimore in 2007. “Acts of violence are often the result of an exchange of acts of rudeness that spiral out of control,” he said.
Neil Genzlinger| Dec. 7, 2018
The Atlantic--A Guarantee of Tuition-Free College Can Have Life-Changing Effects
A mailer sent to low-income students with that promise led to a major jump in enrollment at the University of Michigan, according to a new study.
Highly selective colleges have long struggled with racial and economic diversity. At 38 such institutions in the United States, more students come from households in the top 1 percent than from those in the bottom 60 percent. That is in part due to who applies to the universities: Many high-achieving students from a low-income or minority background don’t think they can get in to a prestigious institution, let alone pay for it—despite the fact that many such colleges have generous financial-aid packages—so they end up not applying.
A new study, however, found that a few extra dollars on a university’s part might go a long way in terms of changing that calculus for low-income students. The working paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, examined the effects of a targeted-outreach campaign for low-income students at the University of Michigan.
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/12/life-changing-effects-free-college/577831/
Adam Harris| Dec 11, 2018
