By Wick Sloane, in a column called The Devil's Workshop in Inside Higher Ed, September 20 2010. Sloane, previously the CFO of a public university, has embedded himself as a writing teacher at Bunker Hill Community College. In this column, he ties completion to the many varied needs of under-served students, many of whom live in poverty.
By Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, published in Newsweek, July 10 2010. This article argues that American kids' creativity has been declining since 1990, in part because of the current state of education. In other parts of the world, there is a real emphasis on nurturing creativity in the schools.