Students at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester, Massachusetts. (Reuters/Adam Hunger) By Greg KaufmannCo-authored with Elaine Weiss | Originally Published at The Nation. February 1, 2013 - 11:26 AM ET Researchers know a lot about how various factors associated with income level affect a [...]
Originally Published on January 30, 2013. By Valerie Strauss. The Answer Sheet. Washington Post. A nonprofit group released thousands of e-mails today and said they show how a foundation begun by Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and national education reform leader, is working with public officials [...]
By Faiven Feshazion | Originally Published at Melisa Harris Perry Show. January 29, 2013 | Updated January 7, 2013 Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy There are an overwhelming number of reports that hundreds of schools across the country are scheduled [...]
Photograph; Mark Makela for The New York Times | The Philadelphia school system plans to close 37 schools, including University City High School, by June. By Jon Hurdle The New York Times. January 28, 2013 PHILADELPHIA — The United States Department of Education is investigating complaints that [...]
Photograph By Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press | A man sleeps on a sidewalk in the Old Port section of Portland, Maine. The Census Bureau announced in 2010 that the overall number of people living in poverty climbed. By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The [...]
Photograph; Sixty-five-year-old John Washington pick up his great grandson, Rayshaun Cates, at Samuel Morse Elementary School, a Chicago school closed in 2006. With tools from 1964, community activists are pushing the White House to turn federal education policy around. By James Cersonsky | Originally Published [...]
At the age of two your truculent behavior was likely described as terrible. By the time you were twelve or twenty-one it was thought just a phase. Surely, your combative nature would change. Conformity is ingrained. We teach it to our children. And children will follow a [...]
By Leon Wieseltier | Originally Published at The New Republic. December 21, 2012 WHEN I LOOK BACK at my education, I am struck not by how much I learned but by how much I was taught. I am the progeny of teachers; I swoon over teachers. Even [...]
America’s children seem to be shortchanged on almost every issue we face as a society. Not only are we failing to protect our children from deranged people wielding semi-automatic guns. We’re not protecting them from poverty. The rate of child poverty keeps rising – even [...]
