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Edward Hirsch had too much adrenaline to construct stories.
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Culture can’t absorb that many people trying to earn their living in poetry.
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Edward Hirsch reflects on his ever-changing process of creation.
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As a young child, Edward Hirsch mistook Emily Bronte’s work for his grandfather’s.
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Think poor and minority communities don’t value learning? Think again, says Pedro Noguera.
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When the response to shootings in affluent schools is to turn schools into prisons, poor districts suffer—and violence doesn’t end.
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Subpar schools are everyone’s problem. Pedro Noguera outlines the solutions that must be embraced within government, teachers’ unions, and the home.
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Why the President and his Education Secretary may be compounding the flaws of No Child Left Behind with new mistakes.
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When students are flunking in high numbers, teachers and administrators must take three crucial steps.
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Yes, combating the high dropout rate in minority communities requires more school funding. But funding alone isn’t enough.
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The sociologist’s commitment to understanding and improving schools “comes right out of [his] own experience” as an underserved student.
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A conversation with the Professor of Teaching and Learning at New York University.
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When purely economic incentives drive the media business, says Duke University’s James Hamilton, important civic benefits are lost.
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As the sociologist explains, taste is manufactured socially, through whole groups. And when a certain, latte-loving class of people begins to overtake a community, it stifles neighboring populations both culturally […]
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Manhattan’s Lower East Side has a distinctive history shaped largely by a spirit of resistance. So how does this mesh with the myriad nightclubs and sushi bars now filling the […]
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Though often indirect, many urban dwellers are guilty of participating in a devastating pattern of displacement that is harming both the lives of low-income families and the fabric of cities […]
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The pace of gentrification began to accelerate in the 1980s and, despite economic downturns, has yet to stall. What is responsible for this rush to urban areas? Can it last?
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Despite occasional, but somewhat specious, counter-culture movements, New York is rapidly becoming home to an exclusively wealthy population and endless rows of bland chain stores, both of which are destroying […]