By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. Originally Published at TruthOut Andrea Gabor examines the rise of charter schools in post-Katrina New Orleans, raising an important question in the subhead: “Are New Orleans’s schools a model for the nation—or a cautionary tale?” Gabor ends the piece suggesting caution: But [...]
In the summer of 2013 House Republicans dropped funding for food stamps and other nutritional programs from the Farm Bill. Historically the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) comprised about 80 percent of the funds allocated in the Farm Bill. Cost savings were claimed as the reason for [...]
On September 21, 2013 a large group of children, parents, grandparents, school staff, teachers and community members gathered to affirm Public Education as a Civil Right. Locals and supporters from miles away came together at Milwaukee High School of the Arts at 10:30 a.m. Once the crowd [...]
Throughout the nation there is much debate; homework is good. No, it's bad. There is too much. Too little. It's better in moderation? And then there is the nagging question; does homework serve our children? Well, that depends. What is the means and what are the ends? [...]
You may remember those heady days. It was called the Republican Convention. A large group of Republicans gathered together to celebrate education and the role it played in earlier generations. There were tales of hard-work and high expectations among the exhortations. Those were the days; we learned [...]
Why do they care about schools? It’s all about money By Maisie Mcadoo New York Teacher Issue June 3, 2010 Education Reform Now, which spearheaded a $2 million media campaign to lift the charter school cap without reforms, paid for this mailer attacking the UFT. Who paid [...]
Is Teacher enough to turn the tide to take misery and twirl it into happiness? Might the affect of a good teacher-student relationship in a classroom be enough to change a life? Could it be that an Educator is but one influence amongst many? And does each [...]
By Carlo Rotella | Originally Published at The New York Times. September 12, 2013 Sally Hurd Smith, a veteran teacher, held up her brand-new tablet computer and shook it as she said, “I don’t want this thing to take over my classroom.” It was late June, a [...]
Photograph; Mel Yates By Pedro Noguera | | Originally Published at The Nation. September 11, 2013 The latest “school reform” silver bullet fails to address how children learn. Ever since the release of A Nation at Risk, in 1983, the government report issued by Ronald Reagan’s [...]
