Stop me when this sounds unfamiliar: You flip through the pages of the latest Economist (or parse through the articles online), looking for interesting material, chuckling to yourself over the risible article titles and amusing photo captions. Then you settle on a number of pieces to read?the majority of which are on topics you know little about.
If you live in New York City, a quarter of the money ostensibly spent on your child's education goes to fringe benefits and pension costs, according to the New York Post: Why have costs continued to skyrocket while performance lags?
It's refreshing to hear that NPR is alert to the ?education crisis? rhetoric peddled seemingly nonstop.
? We're too concentrated on having our children learn the answers. I would teach them how to ask questions?because that's how you learn.'' * ?David McCullough, Historian
A few weeks ago, we at Fordham released a short analysis, Shifting Trends in Special Education. We noticed that some states, like Massachusetts and New York, identified almost twice as many students as needing special education as those in other states, like Texas and California.
