By Eddie S. Glaude Jr | Originally Published at The New York Times. Updated; June 23, 2014 2:16 PM | Photographic Credit; Residents of the historically African-American neighborhood of Harlem. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Black academics don’t have a “special obligation” to speak to [...]
Photograph; From left to right: Five year old Taylor Weber, in pink in middle, helps her older brother Andrew Weber, 8, right in green, hold up a protest sign they made by hand. The two go to Hutchinson Elementary School in Lakewood and are on a furlough [...]
By Raynard Sanders, Ed.D. | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. June 19, 2014 Public education in New Orleans has been a nightmare for parents since the state took over most of the schools post Hurricane Katrina. The Louisiana Department of Education has gone to great lengths to mislead [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. June 19, 2014 Few things are worse than mainstream media coverage of education. Except for that sentence above, which stretches hyperbole beyond credibility. But that is exactly where the mainstream media finds itself when covering [...]
By Michael Holzman, Guest Blogger and Presented By - Eric J. Cooper | Originally Published at Huffington Post. June 19, 2014 1:18 pm EDT Updated: June 19, 2014 5:59 am EDT In this piece, the author of the heralded Schott Foundation's report on African-American male achievement, weighs [...]
Sandy Coan does paperwork in her Van Asselt Elementary School classroom. Photo: Dan DeLong/Special To The Post-Intelligencer By Guest Post by Peter Smagorinsky, The University of Georgia c/o Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. June 17, 2014 Response to the new NCTQ [...]
Photograph Credit; GuidoVrola; iStock By Jordan Weissmann | Originally Published at Slate. June 12 2014 | The amazing, completely made-up statistic a judge used to strike down teacher tenure in California This week Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu handed the education reform movement a stunning [...]
Photograph; Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 1976 (Credit; Alex Webb/Magnum Photos) We can change the brain, through more than education. Nurturing, studies suggest, is a far more powerful medicine. The research replicated reveals that compassion can ameliorate the burdensome conditions that poverty brings, if we consider…. Inequality Begins at [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Published at The Becoming Radical. June 16, 2014 [Originally posted at Daily Kos and Truthout, "Click, Clack, Moo": Why the 1% Always Wins is a powerful companion to George Saunders's Allegory of Scarcity and Slack.] October 18, 2011 As a high [...]
