The most recent issue of TimeOut Kids features a series of articles on children and sexuality, highlighting the many dilemmas that parents face when educating their children about the realities of sex and gender. Ken Corbett, author of Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities, is quoted extensively in a piece on the particularly
In this fascinating video produced by the Teachers College Record, historian Jonathan Zimmerman discusses the little red schoolhouse as an icon of American culture and a key touchstone to be reckoned with in the pursuit of educational reform. http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1078591422 To read an excerpt from Zimmerman’s book on the Yale University
The past two weeks’ of showers in and around the tri-state area seems to have cast YUP’s neighbors into a dour humor. On gray days like these, one remembers how much of an effect the weather can have on our moods. In their book, Seasons of Life, Russell G. Foster
Though the nation’s college students may be contemplating a different kind of academic freedom at this time of year, Professors Matthew W. Finkin and Robert C. Post have published a new book that outlines the rights of professors in the American university. That work, For the Common Good, served as
Though talk of the Middle East may have slipped from the front page in the midst of an economic crisis, the scholars at the Washington Institute have remained firmly focused on their goal of “promoting security, peace, prosperity, and democracy” for the people of the Middle East. In their inaugural
Do the most innovative economic solutions come from the private sector or from the state? In the midst of an economic slowdown and an election year, the question is unavoidable. Concerned readers might find insights in Dan Breznitz’s Innovation and the State, which was announced the winner of the 2008
Three years ago today at 6:10 a.m. CDT, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Plaquemines Parish, on the southeastern tip of Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. The effects of the storm were felt as far north as Canada but nowhere more intensely than in St. Bernard Parish, just south of New Orleans. When
Are you pregnant and working? Know someone who is? Marjorie Greenfield M.D. recently published a book with Yale University Press designed to be your go-to guide for working soon-to-be moms. Titled The Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book, the book draws from Dr. Greenfield’s years of experience as a practicing Ob/Gyn and
Marwan Muasher, the author of The Arab Center, will appear today at 11AM ET on WAMU’s The Diane Rehm Show, broadcast nationwide via NPR and Sirius Satellite Radio (you can find a list of participating radios here). Muasher will talk about his twenty-year experience with the peace process in the
As Israel, and its millions of supporters world-wide, celebrate its 60th birthday, few realize the important role that Winston Churchill played in the establishment of the State of Israel and the shaping of the modern Middle East. Michael Makovsky’s groundbreaking Churchill’s Promised Land, brings this and much more to light