Educating Migrant Children in Dodge City
by Deborah Fallows
“We’re a port of entry 1,000 miles from the border.” (Read it here.)
Educating Migrant Children in Dodge City
by Deborah Fallows
“We’re a port of entry 1,000 miles from the border.” (Read it here.)
by Deborah Fallows
A high school in the famed Kansas town is embracing its rapidly changing demographics. (Read it here.)
Budget Challenges at a Remarkable Mississippi School
by James Fallows
An update on what’s happening at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. (Read it here.)
Tech Meets Art in Middle School
by Deborah Fallows
A South Carolina public school gives tech-savvy students a sense of humanity. (Read it here.)
by James Fallows
Most people in the U.S. believe their country is going to hell. But they’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal.
Read the cover-story article here.
Another Look at Maine Maritime: Who is Providing Value, to Whom, and How?
by James Fallows
In response to our series of posts about Maine Maritime Academy, we heard from a reader who pushes back on the notion that the merchant-marine academies provide very high career-earnings value to their students, at a low cost. Jim lets him have the floor here to make the argument that the “value added” in higher salaries comes from legislatively protected earnings for merchant seamen. More on this argument, including strong counter-arguments, coming soon. (Read it here.)
Another Honor for Maine Maritime Academy, at an Important Time
by James Fallows
This is an update, with news, about Maine Maritime Academy, an institution that perfectly illustrates an important theme we’ve developed in the American Futures project about education in this country. Fallows tells us about the continuing, well-deserved recognition MMA is receiving for the incredible “added value” of its degree programs. Poignantly, Fallows also offers an appreciation for the five MMA alumni who lost their lives when the cargo ship El Faro sank on October 1 during Hurricane Joaquin. (Read it here.)
When High School Means a Build-It-Yourself Education
by Deborah Fallows
A charter school in Oregon encourages students to shape their own learning. (Read it here.)
A Community College at the Center of an Oregon Recovery Story
by James Fallows
When the lumber industry left, the region bet its future on technology—even though it lacked a research university. (Read it here.)
Building for the Future, in California’s Famously Failed City
by James Fallows
The Los Angeles Times has a big, new demonstration of how bad things have gotten in the city of San Bernardino. Here’s a look at people doing their best, despite those odds. (Read it here.)