William Ayers
William Ayers William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), member of the executive committee of the Faculty Senate and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and [...]
Media Coverage, Interviews, Collaboration; Diane Levin
Media Coverage, Interviews, Collaboration October ABC Action News. Parents in Action: Teacher/Parent Communications. Angela Ardolino. October 3, 2013. September Yahoo Shine. Beth Greenfield. Walmart Naughty Leopard Halloween costume. Sept. 26, 2013. Boston.com. Barbara Meltz. “Child Caring: Kids & [...]
Professional Talks To Teachers, Parents and Beyond; Diane Levin
Professional Talks To Teachers, Parents & Beyond FALL 2013 MOC Community Partnerships & Strengthening Families Alliance—Fitchburg, MA. Parent Workshop. “Meeting Children’s Needs in Violent Times.” Sept. 25. Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, Alaska. Keynote address/training for teachers, parents, and counselors. “Beyond the Screen: [...]
Racism And The Empathy For Pain On Our Skin
By Researchers Matteo Forgiarini*, Marcello Gallucci* and Angelo Maravita| Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy | Originally Published at Frontiers In Psychology 23 May 2011 | To Review the Full Report Download Racism And The Empathy For Pain On Our Skin [PDF] Empathy is a [...]
NEA – Stop the Games, Congress
Originally Published at the National Education Association The refusal of a group of Tea Party Republicans to compromise forced a government shutdown that put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work, forced children out of Head Start classes, and is harming ordinary families every day. Now, [...]
Dylan Garity – “Rigged Game” (NPS 2013)
Performed at the National Poetry Slam for Minneapolis's 2013 Slam MN! Text of “Rigged Game” (NPS 2013) Every day when I was five, my older sister would play teacher. Her students were me, my stuffed rabbit and an American girl doll, She'd line us up at the [...]
Presenting No Evidence
Reference Publication: Review of Two Presentations on the Portfolio School Model | Download the Report Advocates for “Portfolio School Districts” Oversell their Product Contact: William J. Mathis, (802) 383-0058, wmathis@sover.net Elizabeth DeBray, (706) 542-6249, edebray@uga.edu URL for this press release: http://tinyurl.com/n9jb6wk BOULDER, CO (October 8, 2013) – ‘Portfolio [...]
Lessons From the 1963 Boycott
'63 Boycott - Today is Freedom Day LESSONS FROM THE 1963 BOYCOTT The Struggle for Quality Education in Chicago Then and Now On October 22, 1963, more than 200,000 Chicago Public Schools students boycotted school to protest segregation and inequality, in one of the largest civil [...]