By Kate Taylor | Originally Published at The New York Times. March 6, 2014 Battered in the press over his position on charter schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday took to a friendly news outlet to defend himself and argue that his actions were being distorted. [...]
[Image adapted from Anosmia on flickr] By David Sirota | Originally Published at Pandodaily. March 6, 2014 Charter schools have long been loved by the private sector, and the rich. And for good reason. They are technically public schools, and so they receive lots of public money, [...]
Eva S. Moskowitz, left, founder of Success Academy Charter Schools, led a rally Tuesday in Albany, while Mayor Bill de Blasio, who differs with her, led a separate demonstration. | Credit Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times It is not a battle of the Titans, but [...]
Image: Racial Stereotypes retrieved from tumblr By Esther Quintero | Originally Published at Shaker Blog. April 4, 2014 This is the first in a series of three posts about implicit bias. Here are the second and third parts. The research on implicit bias both fascinates and disturbs [...]
Joshua Cintron, 10, prays during funeral services for his cousin, Naisha Pearson, at St. Luke's Church in the Bronx. Pearson, 10, was shot and killed by a stray bullet at a neighborhood Labor Day picnic in a Bronx park when a fight between two men erupted in [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. March 4, 2014 Teaching literacy has been my career and life for over thirty years now. Having grown up in the South with my own peculiar grasp of so-called standard English, I feel fortunate to [...]
NYS Refusal Boycotts explained in a straight forward manner.Video: NYS Refusal Boycotts explained in a straight forward manner Originally Published at NYS ALLIES FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION Thank you to the team at Overit (overit.com) for this amazing video. Director - Lawrence Basso Illustrator - Michael Hayes Voiceover [...]
Karen Pulfer Focht/The Commercial Appeal/ZUMANo, single moms aren't the problem. And neither are absentee dads. By Erika Eichelberger | Originally Published at Mother Jones.March/April 2014 Issue 1. Single moms are the problem. Only 9 percent of low-income, urban moms have been single throughout their child's first five [...]
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Friday that CPS boss Barbara Byrd-Bennett "made the right call" in warning teachers of the repercussions of refusing to administer an achievement test next week. | DNAInfo/Ted Cox By Ted Cox @tedcoxchicago| Originally Published at DNA Info. February 28, 2014 EDGEWATER — The [...]
