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Parents Form Public Schools Advocacy Group

‪Advocate staff photo by Richard Alan Hannon -- BESE board member Lottie Beebe, left, talks with Ann .‬Burruss, a parent and Swamp BESE co-founder By Marsha Sills msills@theadvocate.com | Originally Published at The Advocate. January 03, 2014 LAFAYETTE — Two Lafayette Parish public-school parents, who fought last [...]

Parents Form Public Schools Advocacy Group2016-11-29T17:38:22-05:00

Unemployment and Our Children. The Other “Common Core”

Photograph; Angel Nevins, center, and her friend and classmate Jade Smith, left, wait for their signal to ring their hand bells as children from the Anderson Grove Head Start program in Caledonia, Mississippi, ring their hand bells to accompany several patriotic songs, Tuesday, February 26, 2013, at [...]

Unemployment and Our Children. The Other “Common Core”2016-11-29T17:38:22-05:00

Give Childhood Back To Children: If We Want Our Offspring To Have Happy, Productive And Moral Lives, We Must Allow More Time For Play, Not Less

By Peter Gray | Originally Published at Independent Voices. January 2, 2014 Because students spend nearly all of their time studying, they have little opportunity to be creative or discover their own passions I’m a research bio-psychologist with a PhD, so I’ve done lots of school. [...]

Give Childhood Back To Children: If We Want Our Offspring To Have Happy, Productive And Moral Lives, We Must Allow More Time For Play, Not Less2016-11-29T17:38:22-05:00

A Brief History of Reform!

Originally Published at Deb Meier. December 31, 2013 Dear readers, It’s been a while since I’ve written in this space. But I’m mending my ways. What set me off? My granddaughter just came across something interesting—and not new. In 2001 PBS put together a video called School: [...]

A Brief History of Reform!2016-11-29T17:38:22-05:00

Rahm Creates A Process To Endorse His Plan For More Charter Schools

Students and community leaders have protested plans to open a new charter school across the street from Prosser High School, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel appears to be pushing ahead. |Lauren Fitzpatrick/Sun-Times Media By Ben Joravsky. | The Chicago Reader. December 31, 2013 Combatants in the great charter [...]

Rahm Creates A Process To Endorse His Plan For More Charter Schools2016-11-29T17:38:23-05:00

Education, Exigency and Empathy; A Lesson For the New Year

There are teachers, who never were. And lessons yet to be. There are those we refuse to see and perhaps, the memory of these lingers. In 2013, there was one – the person, the personification, and her position. Antoinette Tuff was the mentor who never was and [...]

Education, Exigency and Empathy; A Lesson For the New Year2016-11-29T17:38:23-05:00

NYC Schools Chancellor Pick Carmen Fariña Leaves More Questions Than Answers

Photograph; Carmen Farina reacts during a news conference, Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 at MS 51 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Farina, a former teacher, principal and longtime advocate of early childhood education, will be the next leader of the nation's largest public school system. (AP [...]

NYC Schools Chancellor Pick Carmen Fariña Leaves More Questions Than Answers2016-11-29T17:38:23-05:00

Amid Mass School Closings, a Slow Death for Some

Walter Dyett High School, pictured here, is being phased out by the Chicago Public Schools. Since 2001, the district has closed, phased-out or turned around about 150 schools. The vast majority of the students affected by the school closures have been poor or African American. Introductory Essay [...]

Amid Mass School Closings, a Slow Death for Some2016-11-29T17:38:23-05:00
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