Illustration; By Jean Jullien And other insights from a ground- breaking study of how parents impact children’s academic achievement By Dana Goldstein | Originally Published at The Atlantic. March 19 2014, 9:06 PM ET One of the central tenets of raising kids in America is that parents [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Education Opportunity Network. March 19, 2014 For people who like to think of themselves as being “exceptional,” Americans can sometimes abandon the very principles their exceptionality is founded on. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the current debate of education policy. A [...]
By Philip Bump | Originally Published at The Wire. March 10, 2014 8:04PM ET Asked to identify the age of a young boy that committed a felony, participants in a study routinely overestimated the age of black children far more than they did white kids. Worse: Cops [...]
Photo: Sanofi Pasteur/Flickr. It begins before we enter school. You may have seen this in your sister, in your mother, or perhaps it is you. Have you tried and did less well than expected, not performed up to snuff; have you been a disappointment – to yourself [...]
By Gaayathri Nair | Originally Published at The Feminist Wire. March 18, 2014 I am a good immigrant girl. We only ever spoke English in my family. It is my first and only language. I understand fragments of my mother tongue, but the words twist and [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. March 17, 2014 Albeit from different ideologies, NPR and Fox News have something really disturbing in common: Bias masked as, to use the Fox slogan, “fair and balanced.” In fact, the breezy tone of NPR [...]
Graphic; Opt-Out Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System/AngertAesthetics Originally Published by Ricardo Rosa | March 16, 2014 | Download Flyer Opt-Out Massachusetts I often hear that parental voices are needed in our educational system. Your response to this letter will determine whether or not you truly mean to include [...]
Photograph; A report released today by New Detroit showed there are significant racial gaps in education and income across metro Detroit, with Latinos and African Americans lagging behind whites and Asian Americans. / January photo by Kimberly P. Mitchell/Detroit Free While the study reveals the situation is [...]
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback listens to kindergarten students during a class on Jan. 23 at Roesland Elementary School in Roeland Park, Ks.John Milburn/AP Originally Published at Education Justice. March 14, 2014 | The Luke Gannon v. State of Kansas Decision After a 16-day trial in Gannon v. [...]
