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“We Exist in a Marketplace of Favors,” The World of Realpolitik
We are a contentious species, we bicker, at times dissemble, and at the same time speak of ethics and morality. In classrooms, twenty-five hundred years later we regal Socrates as a great teacher, and forget he was condemned to death for teaching the youth of Athens to think critically (Socrates needed a union!). We just…
What Are the Most Serious Problems Confronting NYC Schools? Segregation? Too Many Small Schools? Chronic Absenteeism? Homelessness?
Every August City & State, an online news aggregator hosts an Education Summit, in the Holocaust Museum at the Battery, hundreds gather to engage each other and listen to education policy makers from the city and the state. Our new Chancellor Kamar Samuels was the keynote speaker, days after the reading scores kerfuffle, after increasing…
Zohran Mamdani: Presidential Candidate or One-Term Mayor
Running for office is exhilarating, cheering crowds, racing from event to event and Mamdani, a virtually unknown state legislator not only defeats a three term governor, he defeats the pollsters, he built an army of door knockers and this year his coattails carried unknown DSA members to victories against well established incumbents. He became a…
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Ed in the Apple: Blogging on the Intersection of Education and Politics Title 