Photograph; Sybrina Fulton's Birthday Homage Tweet to her son Trayvon Martin Our children are dying by our own hand and we sanction their slaughter. Some may say standardized-tests do our young in. But what of the killings? What of the guns and the "ground" on which we [...]
Illustration; Copyright Bob Cahm By Ann Evans de Bernard | Originally Published at Education Week. February 3, 2014 | Published in Print: February 5, 2014, as When Is School Reform Not Reform? My state of Connecticut, like many others across the country, has received much attention lately [...]
Graphic; Pew Research Center. Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. February 5, 2013 This is a test! Do you feel the sweat? Are you prepared? Did you study? Oh, the stress. Perhaps, unlike me you feel the need to "achieve." "A Test", [...]
The NYC mayor is drawing a line in the sand when it comes to funding charter schools. By Owen Davis | Originally Published at AlterNet. February 4, 2014 The image is surreal. Newly elected New York mayor Bill de Blasio, wearing a broad and slightly [...]
Photograph; Rui Vieira / PA Wire By Owen Davis | Originally Published at Salon. AlterNet. February 4, 2014 8:30 AM The next 12 months will determine whether privatizing trends of the last decade are reversing or merely stalling For people looking to “disrupt” public [...]
Steven Senne/AP Photo Adults are all a flutter. Times are tough; money is tighter. Policymakers and the public alike say, "We must consider our priorities." The nation’s debt. The deficit. And also defense. After all, we must remain strong. "We need to eliminate waste, and cut all [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 29, 2014 Orwellian Educational Change under Obama: Crisis Discourse, Utopian Expectations, and Accountability Failures [pdf] | By Paul L. Thomas, Furman University “It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English [...]
House K-12 Subcommittee Chairwoman Janet Adkins proposed deleting Common Core from Florida Statutes so all the state's education standards will be under one name. File photo by John Iarussi By James Call| Originally Published at The Current. January 31, 2014 It’s not as Orwellian as making a [...]
Amy Conn-Gutierrez/AP Photo By David Cutler | The Atlantic. January 31, 2014 When it comes to teaching history, nothing destroys student interest faster and more completely than a heavy reliance on textbooks. During my first three years of teaching high-school history I would see students’ eyes glaze [...]
