Hiding the Real Problems in Education by Stephen A. Jones September 1, 2010 Of all the experiments being tried in the name of education reform, the one for which I’m most interested in seeing the results is beginning this fall at Barbara Jordan Elementary School in Detroit. At Barbara Jordan Elementary, there will be no [...]
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Entries Tagged as 'Detroit Prospect'
Hiding the Real Problems in Education
September 2nd, 2010 · 7 Comments
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Pummeled by Falling Shoes
July 1st, 2010 · 1 CommentPummeled by Falling Shoes by Stephen A. Jones July 1, 2010 These are hard times for those of us who love Detroit. It seems to be raining shoes. Our former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, who was sent to prison a few weeks back for violating his probation on the perjury charge that got him booted out [...]
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Cultivating the Future
April 29th, 2010 · No CommentsCultivating the Future by Stephen A. Jones May 1, 2010 Sometime in the late 1980s I interviewed a regional planner at SEMCOG for a newspaper story about the impact of suburban sprawl on the metropolitan Detroit area. I no longer recall the gentleman’s name and remember the interview mainly because of an ironic joke he [...]
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Hard Times for Public Education
February 28th, 2010 · 5 CommentsHard Times for Public Education by Stephen A. Jones March 1, 2010 Recently, the students in one of my classes read Studs Terkel’s book Hard Times — an oral history of the Great Depression, featuring the recollections of people who lived through it. The thing my students found most remarkable about the book was how [...]
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A Dickens of a Situation
December 31st, 2009 · 1 CommentA Dickens of a Situation by Stephen A. Jones January 1, 2010 As Detroiters consider the city’s prospects for 2010, they might do well to contemplate a passage from Charles Dickens, that great chronicler of gritty urban reality in 19th century England. One of Dickens’ most famous and oft-quoted lines comes at the opening of [...]
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An Uncomfortable Truth
October 29th, 2009 · 4 CommentsAn Uncomfortable Truth by Stephen A. Jones October 30, 2009 When former President Jimmy Carter said the most extreme attacks on President Barack Obama were rooted in racism, he ignited a firestorm of debate. Media pundits fought over whether Carter was right — often distorting his words in the process. Journalists sought to put Obama [...]
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