Education @ New York Times

If you are inter­est­ed in edu­ca­tion reform, social entre­pre­neur­ship and ven­ture phil­antropy, grab a nice cap of tea or cof­fee and enjoy today’s spec­tac­u­lar edi­tion of the New York Times Mag­a­zine.

Must read: insight­ful expert dis­cus­sion on How Many Bil­lion­aires Does It Take to Fix a School System?

Also: excel­lent pieces titled Self-Made Phil­an­thropists, on how ProP­ub­li­ca was con­veived and launched, and For Good, Mea­sure, on the impor­tance and challenges of mea­sur­ing the return on social investments.

Bonus: the news­pa­per’s Week in Review sec­tion brings a throught-pro­vok­ing arti­cle on Brain Enhance­ment Is Wrong, Right?, on the use of drugs for boost­ing brain per­for­mance. Am hap­py to report that no one in the Edu­ca­tion arti­cles sug­gest­ed giv­ing these drugs to mil­lions of kids…