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With three best sellers to his credit, Malcolm Gladwell is one of the brightest stars in the media firmament. A British-born, Ontario-raised New Yorker staff writer and 2005 TIME 100 honoree, Gladwell's clear prose and knack for upending conventional wisdom across the social sciences have made The...
You've talked before about the deficiencies of the U.S. public-education system. If you were U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan - who has about $5 billion in discretionary funding and a mandate to fix our schools - what would you do? There's precious little experimentation in education. Instead there...
* | What They're Banning in Egypt: Sheik Mohammed Tantawi, a leading Egyptian cleric, said he would issue a fatwa against Muslim women who wear the niqab, a face-covering veil, in the nation's schools. Tantawi argued that the garment had "nothing to do with Islam" and merely promoted religious...
The figure is a significant discount from the near-$200,000 price tag of a four-year undergraduate education at Harvard. University spokesman Kevin Galvin declined to comment on the situation.
Since then, however, I’ve learned to appreciate her insistence on giving us a religious education. Even now, I see the relevance of what I learned in church school in my studies and my attitude toward the world.