Category Archives: Education

Many reluctantly choose private schools

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Luke Ford

Link: Other parents told The Chronicle they don’t want their children to be around students who wear “saggy pants” or who “curse on Muni” or who may be “rotten apples.” A few said they can see big differences between public … Continue reading →

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‘My students are know-nothings.’

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Luke Ford

I think most people who go to college in the USA do not belong in college. A professor tells me: “You just wouldn’t believe what college is like now. No standards at all. It’s all about economics–it’s a business, and … Continue reading →

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Why Do Jewish Leaders Keep Ignoring Ultra-Orthodox Education Crisis?

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Luke Ford

Forward: The New York State Legislature is currently considering two bills, one introduced by Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee in early May , the other by Sen. David Carlucci and Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski in January , to strengthen existing legislation requiring nonpublic … Continue reading →

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Cross-Generational Differences in Educational Outcomes in the Second Great Wave of Immigration

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Luke Ford

LINK: We make use of a new data source – matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida – to study the degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations. Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and … Continue reading →

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Remembering Jewish White Flight from L.A. Public Schools

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Luke Ford

The number of black kids in the schools I went to (prior to college, and even then it was never more than about 5% at UCLA in 1988-1989) was never more than about 2%. One of the marks of Orthodox … Continue reading →

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