Johann Neem
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| The Founding Fathers made our schools public. We should keep them that way. | Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been a loyal proponent of school choice. In her home state of Michigan, DeVos advocated both public school choice and vouchers to empower parents to send their children to private and religious schools. As secretary, she … |
2017-08-23 | |
| Pledging Allegiance to Our Different—and Shared—Ideals of Citizenship | Turning to another theme, the panelists expressed varying degrees of concern about whether some of the necessary balances in exercising American citizenship have been breaking down, particularly in light of the bitter 2016 presidential election. Johann Neem… |
2017-05-03 | |
| Let’s Not Rush Into Disruptive Innovation | Everywhere one turns, the idea of disruptive innovation continues to spread, even as academics have … |
2017-03-16 | |
| After the Know-Nothings | In the 1850s, the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic Know-Nothing Party swept New England. They won local offices and gained the statehouse and almost every seat in Massachusetts’s legislature in 1854. They showed strong in Pennsylvania and New York. Many observers thought that the Know-… |
2016-11-22 | |
| Where Now, America? | I grew up in suburban San Francisco, on a court with families of different ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds. Our family was from India. We knew that our court had much diversity. Some on the court were Catholic. Others were of Japanese heritage. Many of… |
2016-11-10 | |
| Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature | There are some, such as Georgetown’s Anthony Carnevale, who worry that the liberal arts model of “intellectual exploration” has become an unaffordable anachronism, unsuited for a democratized higher-education system in which 18 million students are… |
2016-09-07 | |
| Why Some After-school Advocates Love Competency-based Learning | When Susan Patrick was a little girl, she loved first grade at Woodley Gardens Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. She remembers moving actively around the classroom and learning at her own pace. It was only after she left Woodley Gardens that she realized her early experience was… |
2016-03-08 | |
| Coming Down From the Clouds: On Academic Writing | On February 11, a team of scientists announced that they had recorded the sound made by two black holes colliding. Despite all the noise in the universe, their sensitive equipment found evidence of ripples in space-time, a core element in Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. It was an… |
2016-03-07 | |
| A Tale of Two Newmans | The expanding controversy over President Simon Newman’s words and actions at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland provides an opportunity to reflect on how much has changed since a previous Newman, Cardinal John Henry Newman, authored his still widely read The Idea of a University (1853).… |
2016-02-16 | |
| Neem has essay published on the emergence of common schools | 2016-01-05 |