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I write most often about education and less often about religion, civil discourse, music, and culture.
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Go With the Goers - But Know When to Change Direction (opens the original)
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Caitlin and I recently sat down with Anne Wicks, the Don Evans Family Managing Director of Opportunity and Democracy at the George W. Bush Institute, and the word doing the most work in her title turns out to be “opportunity.” Anne’s argument, in short is that we invest in education not because test scores are a nice output, but because we’re making a bet that young people will be equipped to support themselves, support their families, and show up for their communities.One idea from the conversa
We Toured a $98,000-a-Year College. Here's What Nobody Mentioned (opens the original)
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The Real Story Behind a 97 year-old Classic Song (opens the original)
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When I recently asked Manuel Cuevas, who is 93 years old, to pick a song from his teenage years, he grinned and told me that the song came out "a few years before you were even born. Or conceived." Then he named it: "Bésame Mucho.”"Bésame Mucho" is considered the most covered, Spanish language song of all-time with at least 700 other artists recording their versions since it was published in 1940. The author, Consuelo Velázquez, was nine years old when she wrote the song. Manuel met her several
The Money Was Never the Problem (opens the original)
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Wisconsin has the country’s longest-standing experiment in school choice and school funding debates, and a veteran legislator (a former school board president turned state rep.) says the answer isn’t “more money,” it’s “better decisions with the money that’s there.”Caitlin and I sat down with Wisconsin State Representative Robert Wittke at Harvard’s Emerging School Models conference to talk shop. Over the years he’s heard the old saw, “schools are unde
Five Lessons From Dolly Parton’s Extraordinary Life (opens the original)
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