By Eric Westervelt | Originally Published at National Public Radio. November 21, 2013 5:15 PM | Listen to the story Photograph; Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican, cut more than $1 billion from the state's K-12 budget, which hit the state-controlled Philadelphia district hardest. This is the [...]
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee |Originally Published at ThinkProgress. November 21, 2013 On Wednesday, actress America Ferrera led a solidarity march with hundreds of pro-immigration activist groups at the University of Texas at Austin to protest against a scheduled game called “Catch an illegal immigrant” which prompted heavy [...]
Did you see or hear about the Taos chase? What do you know? Could it be that we know less than we think we do? Might we consider this…On November 20, 2013, President Obama, awarded the Medal of Freedom [Video] to sixteen [16] individuals. Most news reports [...]
By Félix Pérez and Dan Davis/image by Dorothea Lange | Originally Published at Education votes. November 20, 2013 As cold winter weather takes hold for the next four months in many parts of the country, a record number of students face a stress-filled future as they and [...]
Crisis Discourse, Utopian Expectations, and Accountability Failures By Paul L. Thomas | Furman University | Originally Published at Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 4(1) 2011 "It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. . . . [T]he slovenliness of our [...]
By Paul Buchheit | Originally Published at Salon | This article originally appeared on AlterNet November 19, 2013 Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast called the public school system a “socialist regime.” Michelle Rhee cautions us against commending students for their ‘participation’ in sports and other activities. Privatizers [...]
By Leslie Postal| Originally Published at Orlando Sentinel November 17, 2013 Florida's Common Core education standards make for dry reading. But they've created such a fierce political battle that when the state asked for public comments, more than 19,000 of them poured in. On Tuesday, the State [...]
Photograph; Opponents of the Common Core State Standards kept their children out of school Nov. 18 to protest what they say is a federal overreach. Might we blame a bad Common Core State Standards rollout on a website or could it be that the website rollout went [...]
By Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Professor Emerita of Early Childhood Education, Lesley University | Originally Published at AFT American Teacher Federation November 17, 2013 | Download pdf Early childhood education is “in” these days—from the bipartisan bill introduced in Congress this [...]
