NECP; Brief Explores the Likely Results of Common Core State Standards
Reference Publication: Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking Download The Full Report Contact: William J. Mathis, (802) 383-0058, mailto:wmathis@sover.net URL for this press release: http://tinyurl.com/93jssqk BOULDER, CO (October 11, 2012) – This second in a series of two-page briefs summarizes current research findings on the likely effects of [...]
What Makes Us Feel Good About Our Work?
Why do we work and when do we feel good about what we do? In our private lives we pursue projects; we do mundane deeds. We wash the dishes, take out the garbage – clearly we want to be clean. We also do challenging deeds. We run [...]
A Letter to Mis(s)-Education*
By Darnell L. Moore | Originally Published The Feminist Wire. September 12, 2012 “Darnell, you can’t write.” I was an eighth-grade student at Morgan Village Middle School in Camden, New Jersey, when you, my Language Arts instructor, reprimanded me in front of my classmates and uttered [...]
Good Morning Mission Hill
A Year At Mission Hill was just the beginning! It’s high time to buck the notion that children from urban neighborhoods need regimented, standardized, “back to basics” approaches! Unlike most of their public school peers, Mission Hill teachers have control of their curriculum, and a say in [...]
The For-Profit Higher Education Industry, By the Numbers
The for-profit higher education industry was the target of a bruising report issued last week. Based on a two-year effort, the report detailed high rates of loan default, aggressive recruiting, higher than average tuition, low retention rates, and little job placement assistance. It was [...]
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance
Gawker published the essay, "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America" last year, three weeks after George Zimmerman told Sean Hannity that the shooting of Trayvon Martin "was all God's plan." As the jury deliberates in the State vs. George Zimmerman case, we [...]
Is School Funding Fair? A National Report Card
Executive Summary – Second Edition (2012) Originally Published at School Funding Fairness. Download the Summary [pdf] and the Full Report [pdf] The National Report Card is a critique of state school funding systems and the extent to which these systems ensure equality of educational opportunity for all [...]
Segregation Stalemate; Five Years without Public Education
Prince Edward County, Virginia, is the neglected chapter in American civil rights history. In 1951, black high school students in this rural county of 14,000 went on strike to protest unequal school facilities, several years before civil rights activities elsewhere in [...]