Second, graduates of prestigious schools have friends in high places—former classmates employed by prestigious firms are in position to influence hiring decisions in their favor. Together, these studies imply that for two people with the same jobs, the one who graduated from the more prestigious ...
Since 1991, more than three dozen Sudbury-type schools have sprouted around the country and the world. A few months ago, I visited De Ruimte (The Room) in Soest, near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. As at Sudbury Valley, the youngest and longest-term students are largely from well-educated ...
You work for the university, and in exchange, you get a salary plus a tuition waiver. These are only for PhD students though. There are virtually no assistantships for Master’s students (some schools have 1 or 2 for an entire incoming class, but these are rare). Jeffrey Swinarsky ...
I'm all for education, but there's nothing taught in schools that you can't teach yourself. These days, a university education is about job prospects. Anyone who tells you that universities are only about "enrichment, learning, etc." probably never walked into a library without a teacher b...
Calling on all his experience, Rick set up a program to help kids at local schools become more effective communicators. He brought in speech teachers and debate coaches. The center provided the space, and Rick charged tuition to cover costs and pay him a modest stipend. ...
to shift tens of millions in tax dollars out of the public schools to use as vouchers to pay private industry and parochial schools to educate children. Thousands will get vouchers covering the full cost of tuition at more than 120 private schools including small, Bible-based church s...
Middle-class high schools like David's are complicit in this dream. The weekly school newspaper proudly prints the future plans of all its seniors, and stresses that the majority are college-bound. Granted, the high school offered "third-tier" students options like voc-te...
Schools have an insidious way of pitting parents against kids and eroding the relationship that could flourish outside of that environment. When kids, and all people really, can relax and enjoy life and learn and pursue interests, they are happy. When people are happy, they get along ...
But in university—I hope—you will be liberated from that. Sadly, universities now do more spoon-feeding than they did in the past, but not nearly as much as high schools do. Sadly, the cell phone has allowed students to keep in constant touch with their parents, and some use it to...
My patients experience something similar, but it is not just related to one trauma trigger. Gun violence, lack of mental health care, closing schools, long-neglected neighborhoods—all become a part of the traumatic "soup" in which far too many residents of Chicago and other major u...