On Saturday, February 16, 2014 a Jacksonville, Florida jury declared it impossible to come to a unanimous decision. Michael Dunn, a forty-seven year old white man who admits to shooting Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old African American, was ultimately convicted but not on the charge of first-degree murder. [...]
By Elaine Weiss and Dr. Thomas W. Payzant | Originally Published at Huffington Post. December 17, 2013 11:04 pm EST Updated: February16, 2014 5:59 am EST Every three years, American policymakers eagerly anticipate the release of scores for the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). While any [...]
By Paul Buchheit | Originally Published at AlterNet. February 16, 2014 Profit-seeking in the banking and health care industries has victimized Americans. Now it's beginning to happen in education, with our children as the products. There are good reasons - powerful reasons - to stop the privatization [...]
Will there is a will there is a way and some school districts have each. The question is do we have the will to educate our children or do we prefer to punish them for being eager children? Might we ask ourselves do we want a disciplined [...]
Photograph; Kimberly Celifarco with one of her kindergarten students, Gerson Perez, 5, at Public School 253 in Brooklyn. Victor J. Blue for The New York Times By Al Baker | Originally Published at The New York Times. February The Common Core has been applauded by education leaders [...]
The Florida Board of Education set different proficiency goals for different racial groups. (Palm Beach Post file photo) By Leslie Postal | The Orlando Sentinel. February 14, 2014 Florida's race-based academic goals prompted controversy when they were adopted in 2012 -- and now have sparked an online [...]
The Florida state Board of Education passed a controversial plan to set reading and math goals based upon race. (Photo credit should read Frank Perry/AFP/GettyImages) By Lauren Roth | Originally Published at The Orlando Sentinel. August 2, 2013 The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Friday filed [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. February 13, 2014 The snow started in South Carolina on Tuesday, February 11, 2014, and when I woke up Thursday, February 13, the snow continued, laying down a powdery blanket on the ice crust formed [...]
Base Photograph; AP Photo | Wisconsin State Journal/John Hart By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published The Becoming Radical. February 12, 2014 “Work hard. Be nice.” is the tag-line of Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter schools, schools that serve primarily (and often exclusively) high-poverty minority [...]
