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Can Big Data Transform Social Justice?

Tracking police stops and use of force will allow researchers to analyze police behavior across the country, says Phillip Goff | Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images By Phillip Atiba Goff | Originally Published at Cable News Network [CNN]. Updated May 2, 2014 1:08 PM EDT Editor's note: Phillip [...]

Can Big Data Transform Social Justice?2016-11-29T17:38:04-05:00

Common Core Standards: Another $cheme that Fails Children in Public Schools

By Raynard Sanders, Ed.D.. | Originally Published at The New Orleans Tribune. May 2014 The latest scheme from the corporate reformers is that every state needs to adopt the Common Core standards. Common Core is another idea manufactured by a powerful group of wealthy individuals in this [...]

Common Core Standards: Another $cheme that Fails Children in Public Schools2016-11-29T17:38:04-05:00

We Socialize Girls To Be Better at School But Set Them Up For Failure in the Real World

Credit: Shutterstock We Socialize Girls To Be Better at School But Set Them Up For Failure in the Real World By Sarah Jane Glynn | Originally Published at Think Progress. April 30, 2014 2:43 PM The New York Times’s Upshot blog reported on Tuesday that the [...]

We Socialize Girls To Be Better at School But Set Them Up For Failure in the Real World2016-11-29T17:38:04-05:00

Teacher’s Ethnic Studies Classes Banned, His Students Court Case Won – Broader Implications

By Jing Fong Originally Published at Yes! Magazine. April 25, 2014 Curtis Acosta's classes in Mexican American Studies gave kids pride in their heritage—until the Arizona Legislature canceled them. That's when his students became activists, and some real-life lessons began. The Mexican American Studies (MAS) program [...]

Teacher’s Ethnic Studies Classes Banned, His Students Court Case Won – Broader Implications2016-11-29T17:38:04-05:00

Common Core Movement Never about Teaching and Learning, Always about Testing

Illustration; Back To School by Adam Zyglis September 3, 2013 By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. April 24, 2014 As of April 24, 2014, I am tired to the core of writing about the Common Core because I know three things: [...]

Common Core Movement Never about Teaching and Learning, Always about Testing2016-11-29T17:38:04-05:00

7 Lies We Have to Stop Telling About African-American Girls

By Antwaun Sargent | Originally Published at PolicyMic. April 24, 2014 In February, President Barack Obama stood before a group of African-American boys (and other boys of color) in the White House to announce his $200 million dollar initiative, "My Brother's Keeper," an effort to help African-American [...]

7 Lies We Have to Stop Telling About African-American Girls2016-11-29T17:38:04-05:00

The Unbearable Whiteness of the American Left

From education to gun control, progressive movements need to do a better job empowering the people whose interests they claim to serve. (Reuters/Joshua Lott) By Gary Younge | Originally Published at The Nation. April 23, 2014 At a panel titled “Grassroots Organizing” at the Network for Public [...]

The Unbearable Whiteness of the American Left2016-11-29T17:38:05-05:00

Jim Crow in the Classroom: New Report Finds Segregation Lives on in U.S. Schools

Originally Published at Democracy Now! April 23, 2014 As the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a ban on affirmative action in Michigan and the country marks 60 years since the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education, we look at how segregation is still pervasive in U.S. [...]

Jim Crow in the Classroom: New Report Finds Segregation Lives on in U.S. Schools2016-11-29T17:38:05-05:00

Is There an Alternative to Accountability-Based, Corporate Education Reform?

There is. Here's what it might look like. By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published atThe Becoming Radical. August 20, 2013 and AlterNet. April 22, 2014 During three decades of accountability based on standards and high-stakes testing at the state level and another decade-plus of federal [...]

Is There an Alternative to Accountability-Based, Corporate Education Reform?2016-11-29T17:38:05-05:00
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