AltWeeklies Wire
Arkansas Nuns Recall Admitting Black Students in 1952 for DVD Projectnew
Before any other school in the state, as far as they know, the nuns of St. Scholastica monastery invited a couple of girls who'd recently graduated from an all-black Catholic grammar school to enroll in their previously all-white girls high school. Now Fort Smith Historical Society members are interviewing the surviving nuns from that era and preserving the interviews on DVD.
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
09-05-2008 |
Race & Class
Combat Exposure for Women Soldiers Complicates an Old Problemnew
On the front lines, equality means exposure to more danger for women soldiers. Whether that's progress or not depends on whom you ask.
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
06-27-2008 |
War
School or Scam?new
AltWeeklies Award - Education
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Wal-Mart Money Pushes Conservative Education Ideas in Arkansasnew
For good or for ill, it's safe to say that the educational landscape in Arkansas would be drastically different today if Sam Walton hadn't been born in Bentonville.
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
04-11-2008 |
Education
Heirloom Tomatoes Brighten Cold-Weather Tablesnew
There are, no doubt, a number of tomato aficionados in Arkansas who would call the growing of that summer fruit in the dead of winter the devil's business. But Jimmy Cone's betting there are enough who think otherwise to keep his latest business venture growing.
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
02-14-2008 |
Food+Drink
Take it Slownew
Socially conscious eating in the post-organic world means ditching the paper plates and getting to know who grows your greens.
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
12-06-2007 |
Food+Drink
Little Rock Faces a Charter School Invasionnew
A record six charter schools want to open in the city, but failures around the state cast a shadow.
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
10-26-2007 |
Education
A Stronger Mayor for Little Rock?new
It's been just over half a century since city residents voted to strip their mayor of virtually all but symbolic power -- on Tuesday, they'll decide whether to give some of it back, with a heftily beefed-up paycheck to boot.
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
08-09-2007 |
Politics
Small School of Public Service Has Large Visionnew
The University of Arkansas's Clinton School of Public Service, located in a renovated Little Rock railway station, will be the only school in the United States to offer a graduate degree in public service.
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
11-12-2004 |
Education
