Students at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester, Massachusetts. (Reuters/Adam Hunger) By Greg KaufmannCo-authored with Elaine Weiss | Originally Published at The Nation. February 1, 2013 - 11:26 AM ET Researchers know a lot about how various factors associated with income level affect a [...]
As long as I can remember, there has been a perennial plea for black people to enter the teaching profession, and many of us enthusiastically headed this righteous call. However, as the nation's population and students have grown more diverse, the teaching force has done the [...]
Photograph By Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press | A man sleeps on a sidewalk in the Old Port section of Portland, Maine. The Census Bureau announced in 2010 that the overall number of people living in poverty climbed. By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The [...]
At the age of two your truculent behavior was likely described as terrible. By the time you were twelve or twenty-one it was thought just a phase. Surely, your combative nature would change. Conformity is ingrained. We teach it to our children. And children will follow a [...]
By Leon Wieseltier | Originally Published at The New Republic. December 21, 2012 WHEN I LOOK BACK at my education, I am struck not by how much I learned but by how much I was taught. I am the progeny of teachers; I swoon over teachers. Even [...]
America’s children seem to be shortchanged on almost every issue we face as a society. Not only are we failing to protect our children from deranged people wielding semi-automatic guns. We’re not protecting them from poverty. The rate of child poverty keeps rising – even [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | AlterNet and Daily Kos. December 17, 2012 It should not have taken the killing of 20 innocent children and 6 dedicated educators in a school, but I will not belabor that point. At a prayer vigil in Newtown, CT, [...]
In Photograph; Karen Lewis and Carl West Over the past several days I had the privilege of being involved in several Chicago education events with Parents, Students, Teachers, CTU and Core members. On Thursday Evening the Black Caucus of CTU sponsored a discussion with President Karen Lewis [...]
By Monique Morris | Originally Published at Open Society. October 5, 2012 |
