In his recent, over-clicked article imploring America’s (wealthy) parents not to send their kids to the Ivy League, William Deresiewicz mentions in passing that religious schools often exceed their green-leafy...
Public education is becoming more and more standardized. While the benefits and drawbacks may be debatable, the fact that it indirectly disfavors students in poor, often urban school districts is not....
Last night, as I was having a drink with some new friends, I saw why online education has yet to disrupt the Hilltop, and probably won’t for the foreseeable future.
Sitting and talking with other...
Imagine a world where every day you have to worry about the threat of a second alien invasion. Military officials plug a monitor into the back of your neck and watch your every move from a remote distance....
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the interaction of presentation, speech, and ideas. From books such as "Talk like TED," released this year, all the way back to Plato’s "Gorgias,"...
From kindergarten onward, parents send their children to school expecting that they will return home having learned something. If not a fact or a skill, the thing that parents trust our schools to teach...
Adjunct faculty in Washington, D.C., organized through the Service Employees International Union made major progress in an attempt to create a much-needed common labor agreement.
At the national town...
To the Editor:
In her recent piece providing suggestions for Teach For America applicants, the author mentions her perspective on the mindset of TFA corps members. The idea that TFA corps members fail...
It’s a horse that has been beaten to death, but we continue to resurrect it: The United States spends more on public education than any other developed nation, and yet it lags behind in key metrics of...
On Jan. 20, Georgetown played host to former Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Susan Hockfield (MED ’79) for the second installment of the “Designing the Future(s) of the University”...
Mayoral candidate Reta Jo Lewis emphasized the need for education and employment improvement during a speech at the Georgetown University Law Center on Tuesday.
“Job creation, and I mean good-paying...
Many find the crowded lecture hall to be an inevitable downside to attending a large research university such as Georgetown. In recent years, professors with an excess of 200 students — and 200 laptops...
