Image; Childhood poverty impacted how much the two regions of the prefrontal cortex (as shown in orange circles) were engaged during emotion regulation. (Credit: University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine) By Sherri McGinnis González | Originally Published at University of Illinois Chicago. October 21, 2013 [...]
Cindy Jordan, right, mother of two students at Granada Elementary Community Charter in Granada Hills, joins about 50 parents protesting an L.A. Unified order to reorganize classes according to students' levels of English fluency. The move has sparked a storm of protests across the district. (Al Seib, [...]
Using poverty alone to explain the achievement gap may do more harm than good. By Richard Rothstein | Originally Published at The Economic Policy Institute [EPI]. October 10, 2013 On her “Bridging Differences” blog, educator Deborah Meier began a discussion with Mike Petrilli of the [...]
Joe Raymond/AP Photo By Julia Ryan | Originally Published at The Atlantic. October 18, 2013 A new book argues that public schools are actually academically superior. Sarah Theule Lubienski didn’t set out to compare public schools and private schools. A professor at the University of Illinois at [...]
Intellectually people may know that Charter Schools are not public, although many are identified as such. After all, as the National Alliance for Charter Schools ascribes "Charter schools are independent public schools", ostensibly being one while essentially being the other. Perhaps, a Charter can best be described [...]
It is over. The government shutdown is finally over, the headlines herald, but for millions the pain continues and actually worsens. The prognosis is grim. We have ninety days to find a cure for what ails this country. Meanwhile, The patient is on life-support knowing that this [...]
Cesar Chavez Elementary students play capture the flag at recess. (Los Angeles Times | April 16, 2012) By Robert Ross | Originally Published at The Los Angeles Times. October 17, 2013 Imagine that you walk into the newborn nursery ward at an American hospital and you see [...]
Photograph; In this file photo taken Monday, Oct. 25, 2010, Joseph Erb, helps out students Cambria Bird, left, and Lauren Grayson, right, in the fifth grade class of the Cherokee Nation Immersion School in Tahlequah, Okla. | AP As the public at-large expresses their distress for what [...]
Do we need to teach what comes naturally or would we be better to defy our need to control nature? Teach Kids to Daydream By Jessica Lahey | Originally Published at The Atlantic. October 16, 2013 Today’s children are exhausted, and not just because one in three [...]
