Studies show that students born or raised in affluent families are more likely to succeed. From day one, an infant exposed to finer books, art, music, and language begins to bloom. The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor is undeniable. Race, in the [...]
Photograph; Farmworkers pick tomatoes in Immokalee, Florida. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez) By Greg Kaufmann | Originally Published at This Week in Poverty: Twelve Things You Can Do To Fight Poverty Now The Nation. on May 10, 2013 9:52 AM ET This is a tough moment in the [...]
Illustration; post typography You might have mused about how you helped and how you have hurt your children. Perhaps you have asked yourself if you have done too much or if you did too little. Can we save a child who has gone astray? Is it possible [...]
Originally Published AllIn at @allinwithchrisMSNBC. All In With Chris Hayes The academic school year ended early for the 435 public school students of Buena Vista School District in Saginaw, Michigan. As the district’s slow-burning budget crisis came to a head, its three schools have been shut down [...]
By Laurie Bennett | Originally Published at Muckety. May 7, 2013 at 11:11am The Mapping billionaires and charter schools relationship map [below] is interactive. Click around to explore relations in the map. The map shows billionaires at the center who have funded school choice efforts. (The map [...]
'System challengers' get growing share By Sarah D. Sparks | Published Online: at Education Week May 7, 2013 | Published in Print at Education Week: May 8, 2013, as Studies Find Funders Giving More to Fewer Groups San Francisco - As more and more foundation money floods [...]
Sunday Dialogue: A Talent for Teaching Readers discuss what goes into making a gifted teacher. Originally Published in The New York Times, May 4, 2013 Readers React As a former teacher, I could not agree more with Mr. Greene. There is a dangerous myth [...]
No significant learning can occur without a significant relationship." ~ Dr. James Comer [Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World, 2004 ] All learning is understanding relationships." ~ George Washington Carver. [American Scientist, Botanist, Educator, and Inventor] To teach we must be taught. Our [...]
Orchard Gardens, a school in Roxbury, Mass., had been plagued by bad test scores and violence -- but one principal's idea to fire the security guards and hire art teachers is helping turn it around. NBC's Katy Tur reports. By Katy Tur | Originally Published at NBC [...]
