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It's the Poverty, Stupid
The education reform debate is misdirected.
September 2010
COVER STORY
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Can Our Schools Run on Duncan?
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pushes Chicago's ineffective reforms on America's children.
Features
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Inside the World’s Deadliest City
Juarez’s anarchy cannot be separated from American policy and addictions, says journalist Charles Bowden
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Barely a Teenager and Marked for Life
Federal law requiring juvenile sex offenders to register as predators for life does more harm than good
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Tribes in Kenya Wage Water War
In the first skirmishes due to global warming, nomads fight for survival.
News
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BP: Dispersing Oil or Criticism?
Toxic chemicals helped the oil giant save face, but their health and environmental impacts are unknown
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Alice Waters' Chez Sludge
The world-famous advocate of local, organic food now advocates controversial "organic biosolids compost" for gardens.
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Singapore’s Useful Peasants
As they power a robust recovery, the city-state's foreign-born workers face a growing backlash.
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Dear ITT Ideologist: Interstate Warfare and the Teahadists
Dear ITT Ideologist, I am a leading candidate for governor of Connecticut. I need an issue novel enough... more
culture
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Culture
Once Upon a Time, in America…
The right has one fundamental advantage over its opponents: storytelling.
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books
A Bronx School Tale
A new book shows how grassroots community organizing and persistence turned around one of the country's most corrupt school districts.
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Culture
Jailed Hikers: the Untold Story
The three Americans Iran has charged with espionage are not who you think they are.
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Culture
'There is Power in a Union'
The past, present and future of America’s labor movement
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‘The Manchurian President’: Chicago’s Commie Liberal Puppet
The paranoid style of American politics is alive and well.
Columnists
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Views
Why WikiLeaks Won't Stop the War
The War Logs, released by WikiLeaks, may contribute to the unfortunate and prevailing doctrine that wars are wrong only if they aren't successful.
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Editorial
Stand Up for Elizabeth Warren
It’s time the democratic wing of the Democratic Party demands that our elected officials promote a progressive agenda.
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The Third Coast
The New Black Publicity Party
Leaders of the original group have denounced the NBPP, even suing to prevent it from using the name ‘Black Panther.’
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Views
A Modest Proposal for Teacher Tenure Reform
Why not adopt the best of the university tenure system for primary and secondary education?
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Back Talk
The Teachers Are All Right
Leaving a true mark, after you are gone, is measured in the hearts, souls and psyches of people you’ve touched and changed for the better.
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The Cruel Irony of Organic Standards
The organic movement must incorporate compassion into organic standards and allow the rare, regulated use of antibiotics.
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