Photograph; Roland Park Fourth-graders do classwork in their homeroom at Roland Park Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore. The school is the most racially diverse school in the most segregated school district in the state. (Kim Hairston, Baltimore Sun /May 7, 2014) 60 Years After Brown v. [...]
By Theodore R. Johnson, III | Originally Published at National Public Radio. May 11, 2014 "N*gg*r Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!" merits the distinction of the most racist song title in America. Released in March 1916 by Columbia Records, it was written by actor Harry C. [...]
The families of kindergarten teachers make less in a year than the average top 25 hedge fund manager makes in 15 minutes. Photograph; Blanton Elementary School kindergarten teacher Amy Collins, left with her class on Monday, August 20, 2012 in Lealman, Florida. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, [...]
Pictured from left to right: Casey, Andrew, Tami Sirkin and Principal LaRaviere By Troy A. LaRaviere, Principal | Originally Published at The Chicago Sun Times. Letter to the Editor May 9, 2014 6:46 PM I am the son of a black father from the South Side and [...]
(AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki) By Zoë Carpenter | Originally Published at The Nation. May 9, 2014 - 3:52 PM ET Between 2003 and 2008, a Minnesota charter school executive named Joel Pourier embezzled more than $1.3 million from his school, the Oh Day Aki Charter School. While students [...]
By Laura S. Washington | Chicago Sun Times. May 3, 2014 5:48PM It’s Rahm Emanuel’s hot mess. Crime is out of control, the summer is close at hand. The mayor faces heated discontent from unions, education activists and parents, particularly black folks. A year ago, Emanuel and [...]
President Obama and 2014 National Teacher of the Year finalists applaud Sean McComb, second from right, a high school English teacher from Maryland, as the 2014 National Teacher of the Year during an event at the White House. | Photograph Credit/Susan Walsh/AP By Ross Brenneman | Originally [...]
Karen Lewis, President, Chicago Teachers Union from City Club Chicago on Vimeo. On behalf of the members and staff of the Chicago Teachers Union, I want to thank you for inviting me to the City Club again. I am always honored and pleased to stand [...]
Photograph: Echo/Getty Images/Cultura RF By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. May 5, 2014 The term “digital divide” is commonly used in education as a subset of the “achievement gap”—representing the inequity between impoverished and affluent students. Both terms, however, tend to [...]
