Inherent within each of us is conflict. Generally speaking, we think growth is good. Progress is a sign of achievement. As George Bernard Shaw so aptly articulated, “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” Indeed, politically, at one time [...]
Photograph By Tony Avelar/Bloomberg; A fifth grade student works on a social studies assignment at Bullis Charter School in Los Altos, California. Old news is not necessarily good or outdated news; nor is improvement inevitability. Indeed, in time, much deteriorates. Please consider the circumstance in Silicon Valley, [...]
Sir Ken Robinson speaks during the Dalai Lama Center's Educating the Heart Series. He discusses the importance of an education that educates not just the mind, but also the heart. “In any list of what it means to be human, empathy, intuition, imagination and compassion would surely [...]
You walk confidently, talk confidently; you have stature and station. For you, certainty is a foregone conclusion. You can take on most any situation. Your mantra is, 'Do the research.' Establish that you have more than a mere opinion. You have well-founded information. The facts are with [...]
Alexander poses a thought-provoking and insightful thesis: Mass incarceration, justified and organized around the war on drugs, has become the new face of racial discrimination in the United States. Since 1970, the number of people behind bars in this country has increased 600 percent. What [...]
Whether you believe in resistance, activism, or just the choice to be involved and question, it is clear that youth involvement has changed over recent decades. Frequently, in schools today young Americans are required to "engage," to build a résumé, to improve their skills for a chosen [...]
By Kim Thurler | Originally Published at TuftsNow May 23, 2011 | To Read the Original Research Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing [Download pdf] MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Whites believe that they have replaced blacks as the primary victims of racial [...]
We have become accustomed to its face. We hear the phrase "school choice" and say, what does that mean; it is but a theme for those who endorse more privatization. Could it be "school choice" is not what it seems? Perhaps it is an opportunity for a [...]
We want to believe that our children's education resides in the hands of professionals. We place our confidence in our Teachers. Paid pedagogues, we think guide policy. We might never imagine that it is we who entrust our youth to profiteers; yet when confronted with the numbers [...]
