Studies Prove What We Knew All Along: Public Schools Need Money
Two studies show that money indeed matters in public schools, especially to low-income students attending underresourced schools.
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This College Student is Ready to Take on Detroit
The former intern at the U.S. House of Representatives also wants to make sure poor people in Detroit aren’t displaced by the city’s rapid gentrification. She plans to pursue community policing to build bridges between law enforcement and the community. And she’s spoken of developing more programs for the city’s youth and making more recreational centers, parks, and after-school programs available to them.
Higher Ed Not Feeling a Trump Presidency
As it dawns over every area of industry that Donald Trump is now the U.S. president-elect, affecting the market (private prison stocks and oil stocks are up; gun stocks, down) and everything else, higher education is a critical sector that neither expected nor relished the idea of a Trump White House.
5 Guiding Principles on What Makes an Effective Leader
What makes a good leader? Well, if check out the shelves of your local bookstore or search for leader on Amazon.com and you’ll get hundreds of books on the subject. There are key characteristics that effective leaders all embody, and Atlanta Mayor Kashim Reed, who spoke on the subject at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, shares his five guiding principles for effective leadership.
Studies in Power
I have always been a student of power, reflecting on individuals with the will and ability to produce a lasting effect. That’s one of the reasons I’ve been such an...