Refuse The Tests!
Because a Good Education Can't Be Measured By a Test Score Number of NYC Parents Refusing State Tests Expected to Triple in 2014 What began two years ago as a small pocket of resistance has burgeoned into a full-blown protest movement: public school parents are [...]
Voucherized! It Could Happen To You
Private vouchers purposely divert funding away from our already underfunded public schools, creating a parallel education system without uniform academic standards, accountability or teaching qualifications. Public tax dollars should stay with public schools. Gov. Rick Scott’s allies in the Florida Legislature are [...]
“Colorblindness” Harms Our Increasingly Diverse Public Schools and Nation
Reference Publication: Seeing Past the “Colorblind” Myth of Education Policy How current education policies are ignoring the racial disparities that contribute to the “achievement gap” and are failing to support the vibrant, diverse public schools more parents are demanding Contact: William J. Mathis, (802) 383-0058, wmathis@sover.net, [...]
Memoir; Star Student Tried to Get Into College and Could Not
This Teacher Made A Video About His Star Student Trying To Get Into College. She's Not Getting In. Clint Smith tells us that "Everything I write, even when it’s not directly about me, is informed by my students. "Memoir” wasn’t something I thought about until I [...]
Ready for Kindergarten Film
Ready for Kindergarten Preparing a child for school doesn’t start the moment he or she walks into the kindergarten classroom. The preparations start the moment that child is born. Students’ very first classroom is their home and [...]
School Spirit or Gang Signs? ‘Zero Tolerance’ Comes Under Fire
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. — On the last Friday in January, 15-year-old Dontadrian Bruce was finishing up his biology project at Olive Branch High School. He and his group had constructed a double helix out of Legos, and his teacher [...]
#VisitFL – The Prison State. #GoodKidsMadCities
#VisitFL, The Prison State. #GoodKidsMadCities pic.twitter.com/SeP5lY5HZN— The Dream Defenders (@Dreamdefenders) March 4, 2014 Tampa Tribune: Dream Defenders shake Capitol on opening day AP (FL): Amid protests, Florida legislators start session The Root: Dream Defenders Confront Florida Legislators Miami Herald: Gov. rick Scott gets personal and political [...]
John Lewis’ Moving Graphic Novel Brings the Civil Rights Struggle to a New Generation
In the tradition of “Maus” and “Persepolis,” “March” tells the story of young African Americans who, like its author, rose up from the Jim Crow South to assert their human rights. By Valerie Schloredt | Originally Published at Yes! Magazine. March 06, 2014 Selma, Alabama, March [...]