Market-Oriented Education Reforms’ Rhetoric Trumps Reality
ABOUT BBA The Broader Bolder Approach to Education is a national campaign that acknowledges the impact of social and economic disadvantage on schools and students and proposes evidence-based policies to improve schools and remedy conditions that limit many children’s readiness to learn. BBA was launched in [...]
KIPP Study is Useful, but It Overreaches
Abstract: Reference Publication: Review of KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes Contact: William J. Mathis, (802) 383-0058, wmathis@sover.net Gregory Camilli, (303) 492 8391, gregory.camilli@colorado.edu URL for this press release: http://tinyurl.com/cpna3fn BOULDER, CO (April 30, 2013) – Do middle schools operated by the Knowledge Is [...]
Unemployment from a Child’s Perspective
Unemployment from a Child’s Perspective By Julia Isaacs | Originally Published at The Urban Institute. March 2013 INTRODUCTION When a parent loses a job, the entire family is affected, including the children. Money is suddenly tighter, and what was affordable last month, no longer is. Even children [...]
A Colorblind Constitution: What Abigail Fisher’s Affirmative Action Case Is Really About
Update, June 29, 2015: The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would again hear Fisher v. Texas, an affirmative action case in which a white woman claims she was denied admission to the University of Texas because of her race. In 2013, the Court [...]
To All the Little Black Girls With Big Names (Dedicated to Quvenzhane’ Wallis)
Sha'Condria "iCon" Sibley understands all too well that each of us is given a name at birth. Some of us ask and some never do, but we wonder. "Why?" "Why was this name chosen?" We ask our parents. Did you anticipate that my life would be [...]
Q&A with Author and Law Professor Michelle Alexander – The School-To-Prison Pipeline
The school-to-prison pipeline: growing up in a system designed for failureThe criminalization of student behavior and mass incarceration By Rebekah Skelton | Originally Published at Rebekah Skelton. February 15, 2013 The school-to-prison pipeline is a national trend that involves taking students out of public schools and [...]
Journey For Justice [J4J] – Why It Matters
FIRST THEY CAME FOR… First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came [...]
Journey for Justice: “Our Children are Not Collateral Damage!”
On January 29th 2013, the Department of Education, Civil Rights Division held a Hearing on School Closures, Turnarounds, Phase-Outs and Co-Locations. The Journey for Justice Alliance worked diligently for near a year to bring this momentous occasion about. Days prior to the actual Hearing, those associated with [...]