Portrait of an Iranian Witch
...Koran not in public school (where she horsed around during Koran class) but through her education in witchcraft. If witchcraft was all these things for Mersedeh, its condition of possibility...
Sunday Reading
...viewed as grounds for overturning an election. "Your children are drowning, and what are you going to do about it?" on the privatization of the idea of education The Ones...
White Bodies, Black Faces
...money came to me and helped pay for my college education. Talk about invisible capital. The stock in the gold mine that was stolen from the Sioux 150 years ago...
Do No Harm
...during the Brown v. Board of Education deliberations revealed that even black children associated the black baby dolls with “bad.” White children with appendicitis are more likely to receive pain...
Class Consciousness for American Doctors
Professionalism is the ideological terrain on which medicine’s culture interacts with its class politics
Sunday Reading
...education Thousands of Peruvian youth and students protest new labor law What made college football more like the pros? $7.3 Billion, for a start "The transcript of this hearing is...
Cloudy Logic
...choice is ultimately a cost-benefit analysis: Everything I might do, from college education to cosmetic surgery, is an investment of time and resources, so I must decide which investments best...
Sunday Reading
...Frank Pasquale: The phantom fraud task force. Scientism is shallow. Manufacturing folk devils. New corporate education model: "online correspondence school for very rich adults who want to be flattered"...
Service
...In “Boy Problems” Ty Mitchell remembers the unsentimental education of a Las Vegas youth learning to attract older men. His essay takes apart the obscured relationships of power and desire...
Night Moves
...and Education belong together like fire and heat. One cannot be without the other.'" Terrible and lonely are those hours during which I fret and worry and stare at the...
Sunday Reading
...loans Dying for education Cops that worked at Richmond schools now under investigation for their exploitative sexual relationships with former student A scandal by any other name How we need...
The Case for Medical Reparations
...counteract the fear and stigma associated with doctors and medical research. Outreach, education, and cultural competency training are useful, but only half-measures when the issue is that for centuries doctors...
The Scapegoating Machine
...up more vigorously by their bootstraps, and that government policy--especially in education--needs to encourage them to do this. Since by the magic of the invisible hand this should lead to...
The Right to Remain Silent
...an incoming Secretary of Education, President, and Attorney General who seek to dismantle protections afforded to the deaf and disabled, such advocacy is more important than ever. In this, we...
Sunday Reading
...your data to the US government? everything you need to know about for-profit colleges Gates Foundation destroying higher education Eric Lembembe: gay rights activist murdered in Cameroon new artists up...
The History of Dialogue (4): Literary Ambition and Gender
...limited though competent income, and I am the eldest of his children. He expended quite as much in my education as he could afford in justice to the rest. I...