[This is an expanded version of the published article, which appeared in the Washington Post’s Sunday “Outlook” section.] Pour lire cet article en français, cliquer ici. If the subject is kids and how they’re raised, it seems our culture has exactly one story to tell. [...]
By Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Glen Ford | Black Agenda Report. May 19, 2010 02:15 AM Contrary to the Big Lie that holds that Blacks have been making general progress in closing various economic “gaps” with whites since the Sixties, African American households have been getting [...]
Photograph; Tina Fineberg for The New York Times | Donald Fednyak in Astoria, Queens, holds a palm card given him by George Banning, canvassing for charter school advocates.| Copyright New York Times Over the last many years, Charter School growth soared exponentially. Parents preached. 'America's public schools [...]
No Child Left Behind brought about a raft of changes. Today we stress about the abundance of tests and standardization. We ask are biases built into this policy system. Yes, there are problems, and these extend far beyond those erroneous student, school, and teacher evaluations. There is [...]
By Jared Bernstein | The American Prospect. April 22, 2007 Economists may disagree a lot on policy, but we all agree on the "education premium" -- the earnings boost associated with more education. But what role can education play in a realistic antipoverty policy agenda? And what [...]
We are killing our children! And when we are not we are training them for careers in which they will kill others. We need only look at the numbers. In the name of "school choice" we provide a perspective that research has rejected ; given the freedom [...]
By Betsy L. Angert My heart aches. Of course I mourn the passing of the thirty-two Virginia Polytechnic University students, as do we all throughout the globe. Nevertheless, I cannot forget how my heart hurts for the thirty-third victim, the one the media never seems to count [...]
Photograph; “A History of the United States” and “America: Pathways to the Present,” by different authors, use substantially identical language to cover several subjects. By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at Daily Kos. and BeThink. July 14, 2006 A New York Times article, “Schoolbooks Are Given [...]
Image; Public Broadcasting services, Education Prior to today's education debate there was another discussion, indeed many. In each we heard the same; public education is a failure. It has to change. More often than not, the refrain remains. We must go back, back to the future, before [...]
