The paternalism of rescue
If girls’ schools remain open in northwest Pakistan after Jan. 15, Taliban leaders threaten to attack schoolgirls and teachers and blow up the schools. In response to a Crooked Timber post suggesting...
View ArticleF as in fat
One third of U.S. children are overweight or obese, according to a new report titled F as in Fat 2011. The childhood pudge percentage has nearly tripled in the past 10 years. Arkansas, Georgia,...
View ArticleLearning from Mrs. G
As a night student at Howard University, Thomas Sowell was inspired by Marie Gladsden, his English professor, and kept in touch over the years. Years later, when he returned to Howard to teach...
View ArticleThe KIPP model goes to college
The City University of New York’s experimental New Community College, which will have more resources, structure and paternalism, resembles the KIPP model for middle schools.
View ArticleHelping the poor — without conditions
“The vast majority of America’s charitable dollars are donated to local religious and educational institutions” or to worthy causes, writes Dana Goldstein. But the most effective way to help the poor...
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Paternalism, progressives and public policy
Paternalism is the hallmark of Progressive reform movements — including school reform — writes Mike Petrilli on Education Gadfly. “Whether it’s Temperance and Prohibition or the effort to shutter...
View ArticleWhen pre-k is too late
New York City is adding prekindergarten seats to public schools, but pre-k may come too late to change the trajectory of disadvantaged children,writes Ginia Bellafante in a New York Times blog. Last...
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