By Paul Thomas | Originally Published at TruthOut. Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:02 So why do self-styled education "reformers" keep ignoring class issues? Ignoring Poverty as Education Reform As Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan represents both the discourse and policy currently driving education reform in the [...]
By Gabriel Arana | Originally Published at The American Prospect. May 12, 2014 This article has been corrected. If left-leaning publications value diversity, why don't they have any? On the staff of The American Prospect, I’m the only member of an ethnic minority. That's not because [...]
The families of kindergarten teachers make less in a year than the average top 25 hedge fund manager makes in 15 minutes. Photograph; Blanton Elementary School kindergarten teacher Amy Collins, left with her class on Monday, August 20, 2012 in Lealman, Florida. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, [...]
Pictured from left to right: Casey, Andrew, Tami Sirkin and Principal LaRaviere By Troy A. LaRaviere, Principal | Originally Published at The Chicago Sun Times. Letter to the Editor May 9, 2014 6:46 PM I am the son of a black father from the South Side and [...]
(AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki) By Zoë Carpenter | Originally Published at The Nation. May 9, 2014 - 3:52 PM ET Between 2003 and 2008, a Minnesota charter school executive named Joel Pourier embezzled more than $1.3 million from his school, the Oh Day Aki Charter School. While students [...]
By Laura S. Washington | Chicago Sun Times. May 3, 2014 5:48PM It’s Rahm Emanuel’s hot mess. Crime is out of control, the summer is close at hand. The mayor faces heated discontent from unions, education activists and parents, particularly black folks. A year ago, Emanuel and [...]
Kendra Herber teaches at New Choices Community School, which the state is suing to close.| Mark Lyons for The New York Times By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at The Education Opportunity Network. May 7, 2014 When members of the U.S. House of Representatives consider, beginning today, [...]
Karen Lewis, President, Chicago Teachers Union from City Club Chicago on Vimeo. On behalf of the members and staff of the Chicago Teachers Union, I want to thank you for inviting me to the City Club again. I am always honored and pleased to stand [...]
Photograph: Echo/Getty Images/Cultura RF By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. May 5, 2014 The term “digital divide” is commonly used in education as a subset of the “achievement gap”—representing the inequity between impoverished and affluent students. Both terms, however, tend to [...]
