By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at the Becoming Radical. March 31, 2013 Writing in Newsweek (1980, January 21) in the cusp of America’s shift into the Reagan era of conservatism that included the roots of the current education reform movement built on accountability, standards, [...]
Photograph; Parents who lost children to gun violence gather at Chicago police headquarters to demand that Chicago police detectives solve their cases. [Photo by Carlos Javier Ortiz / Wonderful Machine] Have you ever witnessed a disaster? Where you troubled, shaken to your core, reminded of the need [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at Alternet . March 18, 2013 | Photograph Credit: Shutterstock.com/YanLev U.S. public education has a long relationship with pursuing high standards for students, teachers, and schools, reaching back to the Committee of Ten in the 1890s proposing a uniform [...]
We can do it! Without a penny more being spent, we can seriously and sincerely invest in public college education. But we do not. Why is that? Consider the culture, the climate and the chance that we might embrace change and you might find some [...]
The following is Part II of the transcript of a speech Noam Chomsky delivered in February on "The Common Good." Click here to read Part I. Let’s turn to the assault on education, one element of the general elite reaction to the civilizing effect of the [...]
Photograph; Art Threat Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert As children most of us are told to trust the police. He is friendly. She walks the beat. He knows your mother. She looks after your father's shop when he cannot be there out on the street. The [...]
By Peter Dreier | Originally Published at Moyers and Company. March 2, 2013 For years, Los Angeles has been ground zero in an intense debate about how to improve our nation’s education system. What’s less known is who is shaping that debate. Many of the biggest contributors [...]
By Michael Meurer | Originally Published at TruthOut. February 22, 2013 10:30 After the mass murder of 20 children and 6 teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, by a disturbed 20-year-old on December 14, 2012, the dominant media narrative quickly turned into a national [...]
If only there were a solution “lying around” to attach to this crisis. By Kenzo Shibata | Originally Published at Jaconbin Magazine. February 22, 2013| Photographic Credit; Chicago 2012 — Greg Wass / Flickr In public policy circles, crises are called “focusing events” — bringing to light [...]
