by Amy E. Slaton | Sep 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
I am privileged to live in a district with superb public schools. But, despite its proximity to some of the most affluent suburbs of Philadelphia and access to significant tax revenues, this is also a school system, like so many others in the nation, with a...
by Amy E. Slaton | Jul 16, 2011 | Job Creation, Policy, Uncategorized
Teeth pretty much gritted, I’m collecting uses of the word “innovation” in discussions of America’s current economic malaise, convinced that the promotion of high-tech invention has become the smiley face of the new millennium: A jolly and...
by Amy E. Slaton | Feb 10, 2010 | Higher Ed, Uncategorized
An article by Tamar Lewin this week in the New York Times (front page, no less), “For Students at Risk, Early College Proves a Draw”, deserves a close read. The title alone signals the unusually progressive outlook of the program described in the piece;...
