When A Nation at Risk came out in 1983, the National Education Association and other notable education players rushed to criticize the report, which was commissioned by the Reagan administration and ...

Naresh Shanker is a pivot expert. He has been the Chief Information Officer of companies like Palm after its lead in personal digital assistants had fallen. He joined HP as CIO, and led the separation ...

Forty years ago this month, the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn summarily dismissed 18 white teachers and administrators. The ...

Xerox recently announced the appointment of Naresh Shanker as senior vice president, chief technology officer, effective May 6. He will report to John Visentin, vice chairman and CEO of Xerox, and ...

Like all jeremiads–calls for redemption in the form of narratives of decline–the story of the unraveling of liberalism contained within it the prescription for a Democratic revival. A new breed of ...

As labor leader and president of the American Federation of Teachers Albert Shanker was one of the most influential figures in education in the second half of the 20th Century. Though his journey from ...

Saxophonist Kenny Shanker is an award-winning composer hailing originally from California, now residing in New York. His debut album Steppin' Up (Positone, 2011) was followed by Action City (Positone, ...