Political Cartoon; "Believe" By Clay Bennett, Washington Post Writers Group By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 14, 2013 Compelling research suggests that the public in the U.S. is unique in its commitment to belief, often at the expense of evidence—leading [...]
Are we there yet? Where? Are we ready to do more than lament, that yes, maybe, mental health is a problem? We say it is, but we never give up the ghost. With only 42% of the vote, in 1981, former Governor Ronald Reagan moved into the [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Campaign For America's future. December 11, 2013 “We have to fight for our children’s education.” Those words, from Philadelphia parent Kia Hinton, crystallized a national sentiment expressed during a Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education held [...]
Photograph; Teachers need to be careful about which students they steer toward vocational school. AP Photo/Brendan Hoffman By Angela Romans | Originally Published at Quartz. December 9, 2013 My brother, a businessman who went to Brown and MIT, and I have a running dinnertime argument. It goes [...]
KJ Dell’Antonia By Tamika Thompson | Originally Published at The New York Times. December 6, 2013 Recently, my 27-month-old daughter, Morgan, asked this: “Mommy, can you hand me the black one?” Sitting with her on the living-room rug amid a mess of plastic building bricks, I realized [...]
Michelle Rhee (Credit: AP/Jeff Chiu) By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Salon. December 6, 2013 Rhee, Nicholas Kristof and Arne Duncan exaggerate test results again to advance an ugly anti-public school agenda When President George W. Bush asked the American people, back in 2000, “Is [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 5, 2013 While film critics have offered mostly negative reviews of This Is 40, I have watched all and then parts of the film multiple times during its run on cable TV because I [...]
Photograph; Chris Harris captures the moment Nelson Mandela is released after serving 27 years in prison | Times/Chris Harris By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 5, 2013 Early in February 1990, my daughter, born March 11, 1989, spent an entire [...]
By Anna Simonton | Originally Published at Salon. December 5, 2013 | This article originally appeared on AlterNet. It has been corrected since it first published. Why are finance types investing in local school board elections? Just follow the money Given that Arthur Rock has a [...]
