Tag: Education and Society

Remembering (and forgetting) Old Poetry

Why Thomas Wyatt’s They Flee From Me still means Something, and How. PETER MURPHY Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt by Hans Holbein the Younger c. 1535-37. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Picture a bright modern classroom, somewhere, in which students sit, perhaps in a semicircle 

Tribalism in the Classroom

How British educational policy exacerbated social fragmentation in Palestine.

Food Drive for the Aspiring Attorney

For-profit law schools are likely to remain unchallenged under Trump.

The School Choice Agenda

Betsy DeVos believes charter schools and vouchers will improve education—but will they?

Reading the Middle East

Cultivating textual literacy in the classroom challenges dominant narratives around the region.

Harnessing Entrepreneurship

Rwanda teaches students that orderly innovation is the path to national progress.

Living in the Hamster Wheel

Ever-increasing cultural and economic pressures are taking their toll on Chinese students.

Why Do I Live Here?

On Muslim youth growing up on the front lines of nationalist politics in Denmark.