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A “Green” Approach to Education Reform

by Dr. Chandra Taylor Smith, April 30, 2010

During recent celebrations of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, I could not help but think about the condition of the American education system as I listened to the alarming message from environmental experts about how “the world is in greater peril than ever” due to concerns about climate policy,

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Curtailing Free Speech Due to Safety Concerns: Ploy or Reality

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, April 27, 2010

I am a lover of ideas. Old interesting ideas applied to new conditions, new fascinating ideas applied to old or new dynamics — I love them all. Most ideas form ideologies, which are usually located in this day and age along the ideological line that extends

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The Importance of K-12 Preparation

by Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, April 22, 2010

I received a call this week from the NAACP leadership in Chesterville County, Va., regarding the disproportionately low numbers of minority students enrolled in advanced placement, honors, gifted and other forms of advanced high school coursework there. The man I spoke with has a daughter who entered college with STEM

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Refusing To Define Quality by Anything but Test Scores: Why?

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, April 12, 2010

Last night I was at a dinner party. The small gathering included eight Ivy League tenured faculty members. Although we were gathered to talk about another matter, the subject of test scores and college admissions surfaced. I won’t go into the details of the discussion, but, as you might expect,

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Leading by Example

by Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, April 7, 2010

This past week, I participated in a two-day summit on STEM diversity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In addition to the host campus, the meeting included representatives from 14 other highly selective research institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, Georgia Tech, UC Berkeley, and UT Austin. MIT convened these

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