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The New Nobility: America’s Aristocracy of Intelligence
The most popular television comedy in the United States, The Big Bang Theory, catalogues the lives of a group of young scientists. The...
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Dec 10, 20165 min read


Discriminatory Discipline
There’s no denying that the US education system is trigger-happy when it comes to passing out suspensions. According to some reports, 1...
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Dec 10, 20165 min read


Educated, Yet Excluded: Why Access to Education for Iranian Women is Not Enough
Women’s education level is often considered a significant indicator of modernity and socio-economic progress. Today, there is a major...
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Dec 7, 20166 min read


Lord of the A, B, C’s : Making Sense of the School Occupations in Brazil
The events playing out across Brazilian public high schools could very well have been penned by William Golding, but they are far from...
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Dec 1, 20165 min read


Beyond the Birds and the Bees: Reshaping Sex Ed in American Schools
While the corny videos you might have watched in high school health class likely seemed humorous at the time, America’s failure to build...
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Nov 28, 20166 min read


The French Educational Algorithm of Inefficiency
Much like in the US presidential election, politicians in France must grapple with complex issues involving public education. The...
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Nov 8, 20166 min read


Standards Deviation: Discrimination in Charter Schools
While the proposition to legalize marijuana has taken up the most oxygen of Massachusetts’ ballot initiatives, another issue is just as...
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Nov 7, 20165 min read


Egalitarian Education: Possible, But Desirable?
Online education, once championed as a great equalizer, promising unfettered access to a variety of quality course material, seems to...
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Oct 22, 20164 min read


The Mayor’s School for Gifted Youngsters
A cluster of third-graders, clad in khakis and blue polos, sit for lunch facing a world map marked with notecards on dozens of countries,...
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May 2, 20166 min read


A Plea to Integrate the Private Sector into Computer Science Curricula
Technology permeates almost every aspect of our lives, and its influence on us is only expected to grow. Yet, computer science is...
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Mar 26, 20165 min read


BPR Interviews: Jack Reed
Jack Reed (D-RI) is the senior United States Senator from Rhode Island. A decorated veteran, Reed has served in the Senate since...
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Dec 21, 20154 min read


Now You Teach Me Now You Don’t
Corruption in Afghanistan may not come as much of a surprise, but the country is far from the only one in the developing world afflicted...
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Dec 9, 20159 min read


Ctrl, Alt, Educate
As if it weren’t already hard enough to get out of bed for early classes, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) may just make it that much...
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Dec 8, 20156 min read


A New Look at School Funding Inequality
School funding in Pennsylvania is so unequal that the state nearly turned its entire tax system upside down trying to fix the situation...
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Dec 6, 20155 min read


Institutional Speech in Schools
On October 11, one day before Indigenous Peoples’ Day (federally designated as Columbus Day), California signed into law the first...
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Nov 1, 20155 min read


Rewriting History in South Korea
Ever since the end of the 35-year Japanese occupation of Korea in 1945 and the nearly unparalleled horrors of the Korean War, South...
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Oct 31, 20155 min read


Ayotzinapa: Mexico’s Unhealed Wound
Today marks the first anniversary of the disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa in the...
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Sep 26, 20155 min read


Indigeneity, Horizontal Inequality and the Shortcomings of Peña Nieto’s Education Reform
Nestled in Mexico’s Santiago Valley, deep in the southern region of the country, lies Santiago Mexquititlán, a township of about ten...
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Aug 2, 20155 min read


BPR Interviews: Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross is a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and the author or editor of more than 20 books,...
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May 5, 20154 min read


Evaluating Music Education in Cuba and the United States
In Cuba, the journey to implement public music education has paralleled the country’s battle for compulsory education, and nationhood...
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Apr 25, 20156 min read
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