Graphic; Creativity by Zyari By Timothy Egan | Originally Published at The New York Times. March 21, 2014 Here’s how John Lennon wrote “Nowhere Man,” as he recalled it in an interview that ran just before he was murdered in 1980: After working five hours trying to [...]
By Karen Wolfe | Originally Published at LA Progressive. March 19, 2014 Few if any political issues have brought together liberals and the tea party to the extent that the Common Core State Standards have. How can something be equally objectionable to political opposites? Tea partiers ideologically [...]
Illustration; By Jean Jullien And other insights from a ground- breaking study of how parents impact children’s academic achievement By Dana Goldstein | Originally Published at The Atlantic. March 19 2014, 9:06 PM ET One of the central tenets of raising kids in America is that parents [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Education Opportunity Network. March 19, 2014 For people who like to think of themselves as being “exceptional,” Americans can sometimes abandon the very principles their exceptionality is founded on. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the current debate of education policy. A [...]
By Gaayathri Nair | Originally Published at The Feminist Wire. March 18, 2014 I am a good immigrant girl. We only ever spoke English in my family. It is my first and only language. I understand fragments of my mother tongue, but the words twist and [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. March 17, 2014 Albeit from different ideologies, NPR and Fox News have something really disturbing in common: Bias masked as, to use the Fox slogan, “fair and balanced.” In fact, the breezy tone of NPR [...]
Graphic; Opt-Out Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System/AngertAesthetics Originally Published by Ricardo Rosa | March 16, 2014 | Download Flyer Opt-Out Massachusetts I often hear that parental voices are needed in our educational system. Your response to this letter will determine whether or not you truly mean to include [...]
Graphic; Olimpia Zagnoli By Milena Tsvetkova and Michael Macy | Originally Published at Gray Matter. The New York times. March 14, 2014 ONE morning in December of 2012, at the drive-through window of a Tim Hortons coffee shop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a customer paid for her order [...]
By Ray Salazar, The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino English Teacher | Originally Published at Chicago Now. March 14, 2014 at 12:27 am A couple of weeks ago, I participated in a conversation about Chicago Public Schools with a group that learned about our schools mainly through [...]
