By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 26, 2013 “I am an invisible man,” announces the unnamed narrator of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, adding: I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me….When they approach me they see only [...]
file photographCharter operator used political connections to receive funding and approval By Mark W. Anderson | Originally Published at The Ward Room. NBC Chicago. December 26, 2013 First UNO. Now Concept. Clearly, something’s wrong. Monday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported a politically-connected charter school operator, Concept Schools, Inc., [...]
Photograph; House Speaker and state Democratic Party chair Michael Madigan (left) shakes hands with Mustafa Demir, the mayor of Fatih district in Turkey. By Dan Mihalopoulos | Originally Published at The Chicago Sun Times. December 23, 2013 When Concept Schools Inc. wanted to open two charter schools [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 22, 2013 In our popular discourse, we are prone to say we are caught between a rock and a hard place, a veiled allusion to Homer’s Scylla and Charybdis. For K-12 public school teachers [...]
Photograph; By Mark Makela for The New York Times | Overcrowding in Classrooms: Across the country, public schools employ about 250,000 fewer people than before the recession. | View the Slide Show By Motoko Rich Originally Published at The New York times. | December 22, 2013 COATESVILLE, [...]
Photograph By James April 3, 2013 | The JR Experiment Original Author| Re-Publish at The Becoming Radical. December 22, 2013 Just days ago, I completed my twenty-eighth year as a teacher [1]—eighteen as a high school teacher of English followed by ten years as a professor of [...]
Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. December 22, 2013 For youth between the ages of 10 and 24, suicide is the third leading cause of death. Approximately 4600 young lives are lost each year. A nationwide survey of youth in grades 9–12 [...]
Michelle Rhee, Elizabeth Warren (Credit: AP/Jeff Chiu/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)Here’s how progressives — and our kids — beat the corporate establishment A populist uprising is coming in defense of public schools. Are Democrats on the side of Wall Street or the people? By Jeff Bryant | Originally [...]
Recovery School District Superintendent Patrick Dobard talks to students at James Weldon Johnson Elementary School in New Orleans in 2012. That school is now closed. Dobard announced Thursday that the system will close its final traditional schools in June 2014, making it the first all-charter district. (Catherine [...]
