file photographCharter operator used political connections to receive funding and approval By Mark W. Anderson | Originally Published at The Ward Room. NBC Chicago. December 26, 2013 First UNO. Now Concept. Clearly, something’s wrong. Monday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported a politically-connected charter school operator, Concept Schools, Inc., [...]
Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEucates. December 24, 2013 'Twas the day after Christmas and all through the [Senate and] House. Not a creature was stirring. Not even a mouse. We knew it was coming. Once again promises of salvation would deliver [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 22, 2013 In our popular discourse, we are prone to say we are caught between a rock and a hard place, a veiled allusion to Homer’s Scylla and Charybdis. For K-12 public school teachers [...]
Photograph By James April 3, 2013 | The JR Experiment Original Author| Re-Publish at The Becoming Radical. December 22, 2013 Just days ago, I completed my twenty-eighth year as a teacher [1]—eighteen as a high school teacher of English followed by ten years as a professor of [...]
Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. December 22, 2013 For youth between the ages of 10 and 24, suicide is the third leading cause of death. Approximately 4600 young lives are lost each year. A nationwide survey of youth in grades 9–12 [...]
Michelle Rhee, Elizabeth Warren (Credit: AP/Jeff Chiu/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)Here’s how progressives — and our kids — beat the corporate establishment A populist uprising is coming in defense of public schools. Are Democrats on the side of Wall Street or the people? By Jeff Bryant | Originally [...]
Recovery School District Superintendent Patrick Dobard talks to students at James Weldon Johnson Elementary School in New Orleans in 2012. That school is now closed. Dobard announced Thursday that the system will close its final traditional schools in June 2014, making it the first all-charter district. (Catherine [...]
The lens of ADHD has changed our perceptions of ourselves and our children. By Jessica Grogan, Ph.D. | Originally Published at Encountering America. Psychology Today. December 17, 2013 Since 1990, the number of American children on medication for ADHD has risen precipitously (from 600,000 to 3.5 million) [...]
By Robert Mann | Originally Published at Something Like Truth. December 16, 2013 Gov. Bobby Jindal’s troubled private-school voucher program took another hit today. This time, it came in the form of highly critical report by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor, who cited numerous accountability deficiencies in the [...]
