By Kathleen Oropeza | Originally Published at The Edvocate October 23, 2014 | Graphic; Wrath of Testing Robert Rendo Florida politicians, Governor Scott and his appointed Board of Education expect every parent to rely on blind faith and believe that their child’s test score is true. Our [...]
We tell our children to "get an education." "School gives you the tools you will need to build a better future." "Attend." But what no one says aloud is there are restrictions. You are on a schedule. Earn a diploma, by all means, but only if you [...]
When riots broke out after citizens of Ferguson took to the streets to protest the murder of Mike Brown by a police officer, the media was littered with imagery and stories of violent and savage Black people destroying the city. To a large extent, those [...]
By Kevin Solari | Originally Published at In These Times. October 17, 2014 | Chicago Public Schools former CEO Arne Duncan can smile for the kids, but not for their schools. (US Department of Education / Flickr) Judging by a new study put out by the Institute [...]
By Marian Wang | Originally Published at ProPublica. October 15, 2014, 5:45 AM Every Year Millions In Public $$ Go To This Entrepreneur’s Charter Schools and For-Profit Companies He Controls. Baker Mitchell is a politically connected North Carolina businessman who celebrates the power of the [...]
Imagine a system of college education supported by high and growing government spending on elite private universities that mainly educate children of the wealthy and upper-middle class, and low and declining government spending on public universities that educate large numbers of children from the working [...]
By Raynard Sanders, Ed.D. | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. October 11, 2014 Kim Ueyama engages students in her geometry class at Carver Collegiate and Carver Preparatory Academies, December 17, 2013. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune) Every year post Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, charter [...]
By Ryan Gabrielson, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Eric Sagara | Originally Published at ProPublica. October 10, 2014 11:07 AM | Hannah Birch and David Sleight ProPublica A ProPublica analysis of killings by police shows outsize risk for young black males. Young black males in recent years were [...]
The moments of protest and frenzied media coverage that followed the deaths of Michael Brown, Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and too many others always bring me to the same thought: We have a problem with how we talk about the lives of young [...]
