Salman Khan: The cost of inaction on education Aaron Sekhri December 10, 2012 2 Comments In an interview with The Daily, Khan discussed what he would do if he were the secretary of education, why GPAs don’t work and how Stanford may be the testing ground for the change education needs. Read More »
NJ charter schools fare better than public schools Aaron Sekhri November 29, 2012 1 Comment New Jersey’s charter schools enjoy, on average, “larger learning gains in both reading and mathematics” than their public counterparts, according to a new Stanford survey published by the Center... Read More »
Condoleezza Rice asks, ‘where does America stand?’ in RNC speech Edward Ngai August 29, 2012 4 Comments Rice made few references to either Republican talking points or their nominee: she only used Mitt Romney's name five times and only obliquely attacked the incumbent president. Read More »
STEP program pushes the boundaries of education Anna Qin August 9, 2012 0 Comments STEP, Stanford’s teacher education program, aims to prepare the next generation of instructors and mentors Read More »
I Do Choose To Run: The paradoxes of pre-professionalism Miles Unterreiner April 23, 2012 2 Comments One of the greatest contradictions at the heart of the modern elite university is its general refusal to explicitly prepare its students for eventual professional careers -- even as it almost by... Read More »
PA, EPA officials show concern for suspension rates Ileana Najarro April 13, 2012 0 Comments Palo Alto High School and East Palo Alto Academy suspension rates are significantly lower than the national average, which, according to recent data from the Department of Education’s Office of... Read More »
Sparks of creativity Chris Frederick March 6, 2012 0 Comments The students' plan is straightforward: Buy a red truck, fill it with tools and drive it to schools. The team -- Jason Chua ’11 M.S. ’12, Prat Ganapathy M.S. ’12, Kathayoon Khalil Ph.D. ’14,... Read More »
Students occupy education Neel Thakkar March 2, 2012 8 Comments Members of Occupy Stanford spent Thursday demonstrating in Berkeley and Oakland in support of Occupy Education, a movement protesting funding cuts of public education and tuition hikes in the... Read More »