Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. October 20, 2008. A new report reveals the degree to which a child's health is determined by the hand he or she draws at birth.
Allen McDuffee, In These Times. September 19, 2008. Public school systems are increasingly opening their doors to military academies -- primarily in poor urban areas.
Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn. August 29, 2008. Despite sunny media reports about post-Katrina rebuilding, the facts on the ground reveal a stark portrait of a city transformed.
PZ Myers, Pharyngula AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. August 6, 2008. We need to start motivating students (and motivating women) to pursue science careers. Here's how we do it.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. May 21, 2008. A new study reveals that race and class play a larger role than gender in educational disparities.
Aaron Glantz, AlterNet. May 2, 2008. He doesn't care if we're in Iraq for a hundred years, but when it comes to the veterans who've served over there, the senator is AWOL.
Ariela Migdal, Huffington Post. April 8, 2008. Sexual assaults continue to plague college campuses. Too often, university officials look the other way -- especially when athletes are involved.
Daniel DiRito, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. April 4, 2008. A recent report indicates an alarming number of Americans are failing to complete high school.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. March 27, 2008. Disturbing and infuriating footage of creationists manipulating young children on anti-evolution tours of museums.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Election 2008. March 19, 2008. Franken talks with Dave about the strength of his Senate campaign in Minnesota and the excitement all across America for a progressive agenda.
Kay Steiger, Campus Progress. March 3, 2008. Last week, abstinence-only advocates invaded a hearing on Capitol Hill about sexual health education. Here's what happened.
Ben Armbruster, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 19, 2008. A 2005 national review gave Florida’s science standards a failing grade because of its "superficiality of the treatment of evolutionary biology."
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. February 5, 2008. Throwing money at the nation's top colleges and universities perpetuates educational inequality.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. December 5, 2007. Amanda Marcotte: Texas is a state to be watched, because so many right wing ideas and strategies hatch there only to be exported elsewhere.
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