The Week That Was.Trade School, a pop-up storefront on Manhattan's Lower East Side, is holding classes where entry is based not on money or talent, but on meeting the needs of a particular teacher. Intrigued by the concept, one of its
founders answered our questions.We featured
Michelle Obama's campaign against childhood obesity and what sorts of
foods might soon be outlawed. Also, Madeleine Sackler's documentary,
The Lottery, which asks whether kids' education should be left to chance.All the while,
Morning Roundups continued to pick up steam.
Nikhil looked at
whether college makes you more liberal (it does) and
whether charter schools are tools of segregation (yes, sometimes). He also examined the trend of
women outnumbering men on college campuses by a ratio of 57 to 43 and whether
school libraries will soon be book-less.David Donaldson's
second disptach from his classroom in Baltimore, and a new contributor, Samuel Steinberg Seidel, whose
essay on when traditional forms of education become innovative, are worthy of your weekend.And last, but certainly not least, the
Scholar Ladies did their inimitable thing:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zGFqSji420
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