We’ve decided to start posting the weekly speaker schedule here to keep blog readers informed. We’re sure you all get our many emails but here’s a reminder of what is coming up next week:
Read MoreMarch Madness and Spring Break
In addition to March Madness, it’s spring break at the Clinton School. While there will be no classes Monday through Friday, the faculty and staff will be working. Several of our students will head to Birmingham, Ala., later in the week for the wedding of one of their classmates, Russ Swearingen.
Read MoreQ&A with Dean Skip Rutherford
Q&A with Dean Skip Rutherford. The following is a question and answer conducted by the Clinton School Blog with Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford.
Read MoreFixing No Child Left Behind
Clinton School assistant professor Keith Nitta is teaching an education policy seminar this semester and asked his students to write position papers on how to fix No Child Left Behind. Over the next few days, we’ll be posting the top five papers from Keith’s students.
Read MoreHuck’s Future Bright, Dean Says
Dean Skip Rutherford was quoted in a recent national Associated Press story about former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s political future. Dean Rutherford and others contend that Huckabee served himself well by running for president, giving himself a national profile:
Read More2nd Super Tuesday Q&A
Below is a presidential primary Q&A with Dean Skip Rutherford heading into tomorrow’s primaries in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont. The answers are drawn from a lecture Dean Rutherford is giving today to University of Central Arkansas President Lu Hardin‘s 2008 Elections Class.
Read MoreClinton Global Initiative University
A number of our students will travel to Tulane University in New Orleans in a few weeks to participate in the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U.), an extension of President Clinton’s yearly Global Initiative in New York that has spawned major commitments to fight global poverty, climate change and disease.
Read MoreClosing the Achievement Gap
Clinton School professor of education policy Keith Nitta made his television debut Friday on KARK Channel 4 where he discussed a report he coauthored on closing the educational achievement gap in Arkansas.
Read MoreClinton School River Market Campus
A group of Clinton School students, faculty and staff toured the future home of the school’s River Market Campus this morning. The school will have two classrooms, a conference room and office space on the third floor of the old Budget Office Building, which is being renovated as part of the Central Arkansas Library System’s new Center for Arkansas Studies.
Read MoreSuper Tuesday and the Barber Shop Poll
On election day for over 15 years, I stopped by Roy Sullivan’s Little Rock barber shop to get his predictions. About 95 percent of the time Roy correctly called the outcome. I never missed an election–and Roy never missed offering a prediction.
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