Bad schools are not going to sink the American economy. Despite what the headlines say, U.S. students fare well in international comparisons. It’s the schools serving the poor that demand our attention.
Author: Jay Mathews | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Spring2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Education | Scholarship, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy
Author: Kishore Mahbubani | Source: strategy+business (Spring2008) | Subject: Thought Starters
Frances Hesselbein talks about the potential virtues of mandatory public service.
Author: Frances Hesselbein | Source: Leader to Leader (Winter2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy
What the Internet is doing to our brains.
Author: Nicholas Carr | Source: The Atlantic (July2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Education | Scholarship, Information, IT | Technology
A foreign policy expert warns that the troop surge in Iraq, while yielding short-term gains, may endanger Iraqis later on.
Author: Steven Simon | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Summer2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, International, Military | War | Peace
The rapid expansion of relief efforts since the end of the Cold War has produced a surprising result: a series of difficult moral questions about the humanitarian enterprise.
Author: G. Pascal Zachary | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Summer2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, International, Life & Society, Philanthropy, Politics & Public Policy, Sociology | Anthropology
An unassuming Dutch traffic engineer showed that streets without signs can be safer than roads cluttered with arrows, painted lines, and lights. Are we ready to believe him?
Author: Tom Vanderbilt | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Summer2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Culture, Environment | Sustainability, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy
One things been made clear by the housing crisis: not everyone should own their own home. Renting has its merits.
Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Summer2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy