By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 8, 2014 The new Common Core and related tests are likely to continue a three-decade pattern of traditional schooling either integrating the new standards and tests into the existing structure of schools or using [...]
Illustration By David Biskup. New York Times Once upon a time every state in the Union, unequivocally guaranteed a free public education in its Constitution, but that soon may end. Within the month we will know more. The Kansas Supreme Court is expected to decide what Governors [...]
Photograph; Graduating students at commencement ceremony at Ohio State University on May 5, 2013.The Right wants us to think higher education has no value. By Susan J. Douglas | Originally Published at In These Times. January 3, 2014 Among the many visionary goals of our nation’s right [...]
Photograph; Angel Nevins, center, and her friend and classmate Jade Smith, left, wait for their signal to ring their hand bells as children from the Anderson Grove Head Start program in Caledonia, Mississippi, ring their hand bells to accompany several patriotic songs, Tuesday, February 26, 2013, at [...]
By Peter Gray | Originally Published at Independent Voices. January 2, 2014 Because students spend nearly all of their time studying, they have little opportunity to be creative or discover their own passions I’m a research bio-psychologist with a PhD, so I’ve done lots of school. [...]
Originally Published at Deb Meier. December 31, 2013 Dear readers, It’s been a while since I’ve written in this space. But I’m mending my ways. What set me off? My granddaughter just came across something interesting—and not new. In 2001 PBS put together a video called School: [...]
Students and community leaders have protested plans to open a new charter school across the street from Prosser High School, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel appears to be pushing ahead. |Lauren Fitzpatrick/Sun-Times Media By Ben Joravsky. | The Chicago Reader. December 31, 2013 Combatants in the great charter [...]
There are teachers, who never were. And lessons yet to be. There are those we refuse to see and perhaps, the memory of these lingers. In 2013, there was one – the person, the personification, and her position. Antoinette Tuff was the mentor who never was and [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 26, 2013 “I am an invisible man,” announces the unnamed narrator of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, adding: I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me….When they approach me they see only [...]
