Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. June 10, 2014 It happened again. Today there was another school shooting. The killing of our children, and often by our children is much like the weather. Wait five minutes and it will change. Wait five [...]
"What's going on?" (Marvin Gaye) "Like Genocide, So Econocide" (Alice Skirtz) Every once in a while in the sea of intellectual discourse a term surfaces that resonates, that galvanizes the historical moment, that has gravitas. Stokely Carmichael's "Black Power" was one of those terms. [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. June 6, 2014 From the beginning of the call for and debate about Common Core, I have taken a clear stand against the promise of standards-based reform; for example, Why Common Standards Won’t Work: A [...]
By Dan Rockmore | Originally Published at The New Yorker. June 6, 2014 A colleague of mine in the department of computer science at Dartmouth recently sent an e-mail to all of us on the faculty. The subject line read: “Ban computers in the classroom?” The note [...]
Illustration by Michael Mabry By Maria Konnikova | Originally Published at June 2, 2014| Does Handwriting Matter? Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. [...]
Originally Published at ViceNews. June 5, 2014 1:00 PM There's an epidemic of PTSD in American cities, and it has nothing to do with the wars being fought abroad. Homegrown violence and a sense of impunity in America's urban war zones are leaving thousands of teenagers with [...]
By Nathaniel Mott and David Sirota | Originally Published at Pando Daily. June 5, 2014 In September 2011, a newly-launched nonprofit called the Teaching Channel announced that it would be producing a video series dubbed “Teaching Channel Presents” for PBS. The videos would be produced in partnership [...]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched Fwd.us, which will lobby for higher education standards. (David Paul Morris, Bloomberg) Will we ever learn that philanthropy is really not that impressive? Nor is money the cure for what ails us? A practiced philosophy that promotes caring human connectivity brings [...]
Have you ever said, did, or been something that got you in trouble? If not as an adult perhaps, at the age of four you hugged a teacher. Might that be a crime? Surely, this act merits a school suspension. It is so cruel. But it cannot [...]
