Newark Students To Organize Massive Boycott, November 4th
New Jersey Students Boycott Christie Education Policies, November 4, 2013 New Jersey youth expressed their distress over Governor Christie's education policies months ago, and once again, the Monday before the polls open on Tuesday, November 5th Newark, New Jersey students will speak. Protest Christie's Control Of Newark [...]
Stand Your Ground Equals Unsafe Communities
Tell the Leaders of the House The Lowdown Originally Posted at Dream Defenders November 3 - Stand Your Ground Community Call >> rsvp: http://bit.ly/sygrsvp November 7 - Stand Your Ground Hearing >> 3pm, Webster hall, 212 knot, fl state capitol [...]
Education Film Series: “The New Public”
Screening Event Details and Registration The award-winning 2013 documentary The New Public chronicles the lives, and daily experiences, of a group of high school teachers and their students in their first and fourth years in an alternative school in the tough Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Director [...]
Film Review; The New Public
THE NEW PUBLIC TRAILER from THE NEW PUBLIC on Vimeo. Perhaps, the greatest pleasure is having the freedom to think, say, do, feel, and be as you are and/or as you choose. Yet, this liberty is rarely granted to us. In the United States we might wish [...]
Beyond Input: Achieving Authentic Participation in School Reform
Originally Published at Theories & Practice. Harvard Family Research Project| The Evaluation Exchange IX 2 M. Elena Lopez and Holly Kreider of HFRP present a framework of authentic parent participation in school reform and its implications for evaluation. Although educators closely scrutinize how this reform [...]
Nurturing May Protect Kids From Brain Changes Linked To Poverty
Growing up in poverty can have long-lasting, negative consequences for a child. But for poor children raised by parents who lack nurturing skills, the effects may be particularly worrisome, according to a new study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. [...]
The Teacher Gap: More Students and Fewer Teachers
By Heidi Shierholz | Originally Published at Economic Policy Institute October 23, 2013 Over the last five years, government employment has dropped by 657,000 as a result of the Great Recession’s effects on federal, state, and local budgets. With kids getting settled back in the classroom this [...]
Low-Income Students Becoming Majority, Fair Funding Needed
A report released recently by the Southern Education Foundation (SEF), "A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South and the Nation," finds that low-income children are a majority of students in 17 states, primarily in the South and West, and [...]