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Civil Society, Education and Work
The Issue
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What’s Next for Tech and Democracy?
Eli Lehrer
From Knight Foundation:
Without physical contact and casual socialization, many already strained institutions have approached the breaking point. In the long term, market forces will revive the…
Lauren L. Rollins is the Director of Research Publications at the R Street Institute. She came to R Street after a career in academia as a teacher and scholar of literature and early modern…
“I think the first problem is most people do not understand how elections work and I would count the politicians in that. I think most elected leaders actually don’t understand how an election works….
Foreword
To say the least, Doral College does things differently. Consider just three points of distinction. First, it’s a high school that now offers its students a dual-enrollment status that…
Paul Herdman is president and CEO of Rodel of Delaware. Previously, he had roles with New American Schools, the Brookings Institution, RAND, the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Education and…
Greg Richmond is the former president and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers. Mr. Richmond spent 11 years at Chicago Public Schools in a variety of roles, including Chief…
Todd Huston is Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives. Previously, he was a member of a local board of education and the Indiana State Board of Education.
Do our public schools really…
Foreword
Great Hearts Academies, a 30-school network in Arizona and Texas, grounds itself in two audacious premises. First, it believes that a Great Books education— based on the intense and close…
“Right now, Congress is having a hard time making sure that that their Congressional Workforce looks like America. So we want to make sure that we have a more diverse Congressional Workforce. Part of…
America’s founders believed that character education should play a key role in the nation’s school system. As John Adams acknowledged when he drafted the Massachusetts Constitution: “Wisdom and…