Photograph; Teachers need to be careful about which students they steer toward vocational school. AP Photo/Brendan Hoffman By Angela Romans | Originally Published at Quartz. December 9, 2013 My brother, a businessman who went to Brown and MIT, and I have a running dinnertime argument. It goes [...]
By Teresa Watanabe | Originally Published at The Los Angeles Times. December 9, 2013 District officials say having to annually verify students' family income to qualify for extra state dollars costs time and money. Major California school districts fear they will be shortchanged millions of dollars [...]
You may have heard the news; scores are not sliding, the scales are. Cheating is competing. Schools that are failing are sailing and parents? Well, they are but pawns in Superintendent John White's game. And what does Superintendent John White say? "There wasn't any intent to cover [...]
KJ Dell’Antonia By Tamika Thompson | Originally Published at The New York Times. December 6, 2013 Recently, my 27-month-old daughter, Morgan, asked this: “Mommy, can you hand me the black one?” Sitting with her on the living-room rug amid a mess of plastic building bricks, I realized [...]
Michelle Rhee (Credit: AP/Jeff Chiu) By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Salon. December 6, 2013 Rhee, Nicholas Kristof and Arne Duncan exaggerate test results again to advance an ugly anti-public school agenda When President George W. Bush asked the American people, back in 2000, “Is [...]
[Image via YouTube] By Decca Aitkenhead | The Raw Story Originally Published at The Guardian. December 6, 2013 Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to ‘keep churning out papers’ Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 5, 2013 While film critics have offered mostly negative reviews of This Is 40, I have watched all and then parts of the film multiple times during its run on cable TV because I [...]
Photograph; Chris Harris captures the moment Nelson Mandela is released after serving 27 years in prison | Times/Chris Harris By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 5, 2013 Early in February 1990, my daughter, born March 11, 1989, spent an entire [...]
The State Policy Network has an annual warchest of $83m drawn from major donors like David Koch, above, and food giant Kraft. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP By Ed Pilkington in New York and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington | Originally Published at The Guardian. Thursday 5 December 2013 13.21 [...]
