empathy

Home/empathy

About empathy

This author has not yet filled in any details.
So far empathy has created 777 blog entries.

Trayvon’s Birth Date Marked With Possible ‘Stand Your Ground’ Case

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 [...]

Trayvon’s Birth Date Marked With Possible ‘Stand Your Ground’ Case2016-11-29T17:38:18-05:00

When Is School Reform Not Enough?

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 [...]

When Is School Reform Not Enough?2016-11-29T17:38:18-05:00

NYC Mayor Strikes a Major Blow to Charter Schools, Cuts $210 Million from Their Budgets

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 [...]

NYC Mayor Strikes a Major Blow to Charter Schools, Cuts $210 Million from Their Budgets2016-11-29T17:38:18-05:00

4 Education Overhauls to Watch for in 2014

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 [...]

4 Education Overhauls to Watch for in 20142016-11-29T17:38:19-05:00

When Schools Literally Take Food Out of the Hands of Children

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 [...]

When Schools Literally Take Food Out of the Hands of Children2016-11-29T17:38:19-05:00

SOTU 2014: Orwellian Educational Change under Obama Continues

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 [...]

SOTU 2014: Orwellian Educational Change under Obama Continues2016-11-29T17:38:19-05:00

Common Core: The Standard That Dares Not Speak Its Name

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 [...]

Common Core: The Standard That Dares Not Speak Its Name2016-11-29T17:38:19-05:00
Go to Top