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Toolkit Highlights Keys to Massachusetts’s Vocational-Technical School Success
/in Featured, Press Releases, Press Releases: Education, Press Releases: Voc Tech /by Editorial StaffAlternating weeks of academic and vocational education, school autonomy, and close ties with local businesses have been key to the success of Massachusetts’s vocational-technical high schools, according to a report published today by Pioneer Institute.
UVA’s Prof. Angel Adams Parham on Classical Education, Black Intellectuals, & Homeschooling
/in Academic Standards, Featured, Podcast /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Angel Adams Parham, Associate Professor of Sociology and senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (IASC) at the University of Virginia, and the author of The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature. Professor Parham shares her background as an academic and former homeschooling mom, her embrace of classical education, and her philosophy about what constitutes a sound humanities curriculum.
MBTA’s Runaway Crisis: Legacy of Neglect Demands Comprehensive Reform
/in Blog: Transportation, Featured, News: Transportation, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffThis week on Hubwonk, host Joe Selvaggi talks with Andrew Bagley, Vice President for Policy and Research at Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, about their recent report entitled, The MBTA Crisis is Complicated – Fixing It Will Be Too, diving into the details on why the T is in crisis and what the public must demand of policy makers to get it back on track.
Giovanni Ruscitti on How Italian Immigrants Built Success
/in Featured, JobMakers /by Editorial StaffThis week on JobMakers, host Denzil Mohammed talks with Giovanni Ruscitti, son of immigrants from Italy; founding partner at the law firm of Berg Hill Greenleaf Ruscitti in Boulder, Colorado; and author of the just-released Cobblestones, Conversations and Corks: A Son’s Discovery of His Italian Heritage.
UVA’s Two-Time Pulitzer Winner Prof. Alan Taylor on Thomas Jefferson & Education
/in Featured, Podcast, US History /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Alan Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of the book, Thomas Jefferson’s Education. Professor Taylor shares some highlights of Jefferson’s career, his views on the importance of primary and higher public education in serving the political aspirations of his state and region, and Jefferson’s role as the architect of the University of Virginia,