So often we bat about statistics. Are children learning? Does testing tell us what their future will hold? Are Teachers doing their jobs based on evaluations? Is poverty a problem and if it is, what do we do about it. Ultimately, the answer is in an adult [...]
By Lorraine Forte | Originally Published at The Huffington Post October 9, 2013 Any adult who was successful in school will likely remember that their parents played a defining role in that success. What happens during the roughly six-hour school day is only part of the learning [...]
By: Stephanie Simon | Originally Published at POLITICO October 6, 2013 10:50 PM EDT Ever since the Obama administration filed suit to freeze Louisiana’s school voucher program, high-ranking Republicans have pummeled the president for trapping poor kids in failing public schools. The entire House leadership sent a letter [...]
Originally Published at Edutopia Cognizant of the veracity that each of us learns by various means and that at times, we may prefer to gain knowledge by wading through the weight of words we present the transcript. Daniel Goleman: What we’re calling today social and emotional learning [...]
It began with an innocent interview. The thought to bring education back to democracy or democracy back to education was expressed brilliantly by an Artist. Out of the mouth of a master an old idea was born again. Wynton Marsalis reminds us of the danger of cuts [...]
Photograph; Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennet By Lauren Fitzpatrick | Originally Published at Chicago Sun-Times October 1, 2013 9:46PM Chicago Public School officials have pledged not to close any more schools because of academic or enrollment problems for at least five years — but on Tuesday [...]
I was asked to write something for World Teacher Day, I did in Dutch, this is my attempt to translate my piece in English. Teachers are no superheroes They won’t save the world. But they will save their children in case of emergency. They are [...]
Photo Credit: aastock | Shutterstock.com By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at AlterNet. | October 3, 2013 It's time for some new thinking about how to address the persistent inequalities that plague our education system. As the evidence mounts discrediting much of the movement for [...]
Photograph; Students look for their classrooms on the opening day of instruction at the Westchester Secondary Charter school. (Los Angeles Times / September 3, 2013) By Diane Ravitch | Originally Published at The Los Angeles Times October 1, 2013 Los Angeles has more charter schools than any [...]
