I personally have questioned the construct of “leaders,” for I believe none of us ever follows. We may look to another, listen, and still ultimately we think for ourselves. We wonder…is what that person says, does, feels, or believes correct for me? Oh, I do not deny [...]
Photograph; Mayor Bill de Blasio and his new schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, tour the Bronx School of Young Leaders. Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times Originally Published at The New York Times. January 15, 2014 One door closes and another opens. In every life change comes. We know [...]
We at EmpathyEducates would like to thank Stop Special Needs Vouchers for putting it all together. The caution in context is instructive. We are aware of the need to learn from history. Within this treatise, there are lessons to be learned. Operators of Failed WI Voucher School [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 15, 2014 For almost thirty years, I have been a serious recreational and competitive cyclist. Despite my goals as a cyclist focusing primarily on endurance events—such as English centuries (100 miles) over mountain courses [...]
By Peniel E. Joseph | Originally Published at TheRoot| January 15, 2014 | The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial | Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images Today, on what should have been Martin Luther King Jr.’s 85th birthday, it’s time to reflect on his legacy and reimagine the significance [...]
Early one Saturday morning I found my landlady standing in front of our building, staring at the wall, with a bottle of bleach and a pair of rubber gloves. “What are you working on?” I asked, with a forced cheeriness that comes from being a little [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 14, 2014 At mid-nineteenth century, public schools were under attack by the Catholic church; Bishop John Hughes “described the public schools as a ‘dragon…devouring the hope of the country as well as religion’” (Jacoby, [...]
Photograph; Students at a charter school in Washington, D.C., in 2012.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images By Amy B. Dean | Originally Published at Al Jazeera. January 13, 2014 Immigrant children deserve excellent schooling too Public schools have historically been key institutions in our nation of immigrants. [...]
Padded Cells, Corruption, Lousy Instruction And Worse ResultsCharter schools are sold as an answer. With awful discipline and shocking scandals, many really cause new problems By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Salon. January 10, 2014 | (Photograph Credit; RonTech2000 via iStock) Imagine your 5-year-old boy went [...]
