Dvorak students said they don't want to lose their teachers. (Kari Lydersen) By Kari Lydersen | Originally Published at Working In These Times. April 24, 2014 6:20 PM The Chicago Board of Education’s vote on Wednesday to convert three public elementary schools into “turnaround schools” run by [...]
Illustration; Back To School by Adam Zyglis September 3, 2013 By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. April 24, 2014 As of April 24, 2014, I am tired to the core of writing about the Common Core because I know three things: [...]
By Antwaun Sargent | Originally Published at PolicyMic. April 24, 2014 In February, President Barack Obama stood before a group of African-American boys (and other boys of color) in the White House to announce his $200 million dollar initiative, "My Brother's Keeper," an effort to help African-American [...]
From education to gun control, progressive movements need to do a better job empowering the people whose interests they claim to serve. (Reuters/Joshua Lott) By Gary Younge | Originally Published at The Nation. April 23, 2014 At a panel titled “Grassroots Organizing” at the Network for Public [...]
Originally Published at Democracy Now! April 23, 2014 As the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a ban on affirmative action in Michigan and the country marks 60 years since the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education, we look at how segregation is still pervasive in U.S. [...]
Graphic; Prominent Ed-Tech Players' | Credit AngertAesthetics By Benjamin Herold | Originally Published at Education Week. April 22, 2014 Growing public concern about student-data privacy is prompting fresh scrutiny of the ways technology vendors handle children's educational information—and opening the gates for a flood of new questions [...]
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 13, 2009, during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Pool, George Bridges) Does race matter? Is discrimination an issue? On April 22, 2014, in a 6-2 decision the Supreme [...]
There is. Here's what it might look like. By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published atThe Becoming Radical. August 20, 2013 and AlterNet. April 22, 2014 During three decades of accountability based on standards and high-stakes testing at the state level and another decade-plus of federal [...]
By Paul Barnwell | The Atlantic . april 22, 2014 "Students’ reliance on screens for communication is detracting—and distracting—from their engagement in real-time talk." Recently I stood in front of my class, observing an all-too-familiar scene. Most of my students were covertly—or so they thought—pecking away [...]
