Tamara Gilkes Borr

FEATURED PRINT WORK

teachers with guns (THE ECONOMIST)

KENTUCKY EYES IBOGAINE (THE ECONOMIST)

One response to school shootings in America: arm the teachers (Oct 15, 2023)

KENTUCKY EYES IBOGAINE (THE ECONOMIST)

The state’s commission may use some of its opioid-settlement money to study the drug (Dec 28, 2023)

affirmative action (slate)

I Turned Down the Ivy League Because I Thought Race Shouldn’t Matter. I Know Better Now. (June 15, 2023)

THe reading wars (The eConomist)

American schools teach reading all wrong. Mississippi, a state not often associated with pioneering reforms, is teaching the rest of the country to read (June 12, 2021)

Critical Race Theory Mini-Series

1 What is critical race theory?

3 What is the fight over critical race theory really about?

2 Is critical race theory taught in schools?

A special series of our American politics podcast on the battle over what is taught in public schools. In part one, how a niche academic theory became a rallying call for the right (Jul 15th, 2022)

2 Is critical race theory taught in schools?

3 What is the fight over critical race theory really about?

2 Is critical race theory taught in schools?

Part two of our podcast series on the fight over what is taught in American schools. We head into the classroom to find out what is really going on (Jul 18th, 2022)

3 What is the fight over critical race theory really about?

The final episode of our three-part podcast series on the furore over what is taught in American schools. We get to the bottom of why this fight has become so frenzied (Jul 22nd, 2022)