Critics have wrongly cast the American public education system as a failure. In the spring/summer 2017 issue of TC Today magazine, TC faculty, alumni and a current student offer powerful counter-narratives and ideas ranging from holding charter schools and other quasi-private institutions more accountable to redressing voter district gerrymandering that creates “have” and “have not” schools. Collectively they argue convincingly for uniting to help public schools fulfill their original purpose: producing knowledgeable and engaged young citizens.
The historian's quest to work out her views on educatoin has often anticipated the nation's. Today Ravitch (Ph.D. '75) is fighting the forces of privatization.
For Chuck Cahn, there's a simple formula for a school's success: It's the principal of the thing.
Within its walls, the College has been steadily remaking itself into an inner word that juxtaposes stunningly modern, cutting-edge spaces with the best of the 19th century. An annotated visual tour.
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