Len Lipkin

Pitfalls of an Elite Education Part 3: Civility?

There was recently an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times by Charles Blow--Private School Civility Gap. The article references a 2010 study by the Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics, "Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth" which surveyed 43,000 kids on attitudes toward sex, violence, race, drugs, alcohol, bullying, and more. There are many fascinating statistics in the study, but the ones that are most surprising (to me) are the one that are referenced by Blow--boys at private, religiously affiliated schools are more likely to

Len Lipkin

Activists Like Me

Thomas Friedman, columnist for the New York Times wrote in a recent column entitled Steal This Movie, Too that “there is a movement stirring in this country around education.”  I like to think that I have not only noticed this movement myself (in South Philly and West Philly, specifically) and, in the creation of this blog, been an active participant.  I also wrote a story about an upcoming...