Photograph; Members of the University of California, Merced, Class of 2009 listen as first lady Michelle Obama delivers the commencement speech on May 16, 2009. | David Paul Morris/Getty Images By Erin C.J. Robertson | Originally Published at The Root. June 26, 2014 12:01 PM Six years [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. June 26, 2014 Early and often, the Obama administration’s education agenda, headed by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, has driven the public narrative about public schools, teachers, and students with a relentless claim [...]
Illustration; Rob Tornoe By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. June 25, 2014 at 8:06 PM When politicians and pundits take to the barricades to defend “wonderful charter schools,” is this what they’re thinking of? A recent article in a Minnesota newspaper reported about [...]
Image; Seattle Municipal Archives/Flickr With thanks to my parents who often practiced as they preached. Mom and Dad reflected, in raising a child you need to think – Does my tone of voice, body language, and facial expression, all together, communicate what I believe? If as a [...]
Are we measuring basic facts about children? Or basic facts about rich kids? Developmental Psychology’s Weird Problem Courtesy of Shutterstock By Jane Hu | Originally Published at Slate. June 25, 2014 7:09 AM Living in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past few years, I’ve gotten [...]
By Elaine Weiss and Emma García | Originally Published at Economic Policy Institute. June 25, 2014 Growing up black or Hispanic in the United States today means high odds of living in concentrated poverty: in neighborhoods in which at least 40 percent of the residents are poor. [...]
Photograph; Stan Gutiontov, a student at Northwestern University’s Feinberg/Chicago Tribune By Times Editorial | Originally Published at Tampa Bay Times. Friday, June 21, 2013 5:30am The humanities and social sciences have been under attack by Gov. Rick Scott and other politicians who are insisting on a more [...]
By Raynard Sanders, Ed.D. | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. June 19, 2014 Public education in New Orleans has been a nightmare for parents since the state took over most of the schools post Hurricane Katrina. The Louisiana Department of Education has gone to great lengths to mislead [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. June 19, 2014 Few things are worse than mainstream media coverage of education. Except for that sentence above, which stretches hyperbole beyond credibility. But that is exactly where the mainstream media finds itself when covering [...]
