(Credit: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi) By Mary Elizabeth Williams | Originally Published at Salon. March 27, 2014Liberal arts take a beating again -- but don't sweat it, humanities majors Here’s a pop quiz for you. What words come to mind when I say “liberal arts education”? Are they, [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Educational Opportunity Network. March 26, 2014 | Photographic Credit; ShutterStock America was shocked, shocked, by new data from the U.S. Department of Education last week showing that a child’s education destiny in the nation’s public schools is strongly determined by [...]
Kiese Laymon, Author of 'Long Division,' Speaks Up for Black Boys and Girls By Jarvis DeBerry | Originally Published at The Times-Picayune. March 25, 2014 at 4:57 PM, updated March 25, 2014 at 4:58 PM [See and Hear Interview Below] When Kiese Laymon, a novelist and essayist [...]
ThinkStock By Alfie Kohn | Originally Published at The Atlantic. March 25 2014, 8:12 AM ET The case for self-esteem, success, and even an occasional participation trophy It isn't usually spelled out quite so bluntly, but an awful lot of parenting practices are based on the belief [...]
Towards Achievement with Integrity By Dennis Shirley | Originally Published at Worlds of Education Volume 43 - Apr 2014 March 25, 2014 | Download [pdf] Image by World Bank Photo Collection via Flickr On the other hand, cheek by jowl with these impressive achievements, age-old [...]
Photograph by Lacy Atkins By Griff519 also known as Ramon | Originally Published at Cloaking Inequality. March 24, 2014 Are some charters’ practices new forms of colonial hegemony? When examining current discipline policies and aligned behavioral norms within charter school spaces, postcolonial theory is useful because of [...]
By Leo Davis | Originally Published at Atlanta Black Star. March 24, 2014 Misreported Statistics Used to Reinforce Black Men as Violent One statistic commonly misused by a misleading media is: 49% of murder victims are black men. 93% of those are killed by other blacks. However, [...]
Illustration; Credit Giacomo Bagnara A Common Core for All of Us The New York Times. March 22, 2014 I COULDN’T get a cab. A sketchy-looking guy hunkering around the entrance of the Grand Hyatt in San Diego showed me his bicycle. “Climb on, lady,” he [...]
(AP Photo/ Jose F. Moreno) By Steven Hsieh | Originally Published at The Nation. March 21, 2014 Comprehensive data released Friday by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights offers a striking glance at the extent of racial inequality plaguing the nation’s education system. Analysts [...]
