By Leo Davis | Originally Published at Atlanta Black Star. March 24, 2014 Misreported Statistics Used to Reinforce Black Men as Violent One statistic commonly misused by a misleading media is: 49% of murder victims are black men. 93% of those are killed by other blacks. However, [...]
Image; A striking shift in public policy has flown largely under the radar. By Stephanie Simon | Originally Published at Politico. March 24, 2014 05:01 AM EDT Taxpayers in 14 states will bankroll nearly $1 billion this year in tuition for private schools, including hundreds of religious [...]
Illustration; Credit Giacomo Bagnara A Common Core for All of Us The New York Times. March 22, 2014 I COULDN’T get a cab. A sketchy-looking guy hunkering around the entrance of the Grand Hyatt in San Diego showed me his bicycle. “Climb on, lady,” he [...]
By Kimberly Hefling and Jesse J. Holland | Originally Published at Associated Press. Yahoo News. March 21, 2014 WASHINGTON (AP) — Black students are more likely to be suspended from U.S. public schools — even as tiny preschoolers. The racial disparities in American education, from access to [...]
(AP Photo/ Jose F. Moreno) By Steven Hsieh | Originally Published at The Nation. March 21, 2014 Comprehensive data released Friday by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights offers a striking glance at the extent of racial inequality plaguing the nation’s education system. Analysts [...]
A student performed a monologue in March in which he describes how he was misidentified as the help at a cocktail party he attended in the play, "I, Too, Am Harvard," in Cambridge, Mass. Credit; Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times By Tanzina Vega | Originally [...]
Graphic; Creativity by Zyari By Timothy Egan | Originally Published at The New York Times. March 21, 2014 Here’s how John Lennon wrote “Nowhere Man,” as he recalled it in an interview that ran just before he was murdered in 1980: After working five hours trying to [...]
Photograph; Drummond Montessori School students were pulled out of class and questioned about the recent ISAT tests Thursday afternoon 3-20-14. | Kevin Tanaka/For Sun-Times Media By Jon Seidel And Mitch Dudek | Originally Published at Chicago Sun Times. March 20, 2014 Furious Bucktown elementary school parents said [...]
By Karen Wolfe | Originally Published at LA Progressive. March 19, 2014 Few if any political issues have brought together liberals and the tea party to the extent that the Common Core State Standards have. How can something be equally objectionable to political opposites? Tea partiers ideologically [...]
