Photograph; PREP Simone Brown helping a student at Intermediate School 292 in Brooklyn prepare for the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, the subject of a recent lawsuit. By Ginia Bellafante | Originally Published at The New York Times. October 5, 2012 Not too long ago, I witnessed [...]
Photograph; Credit Brent Nicastro By Jennifer Holladay | Originally Published at Rethinking Schools. Volume 27 No.2 - Winter 2012-2013 A parent confronts bias in early elementary literature Last spring, my 2nd-grade daughter came home with an extra assignment—a worksheet she hadn’t completed in class for a [...]
Getty Images/The Washington Post Colorblindness! This is the Common Core that we never address. We speak about testing, and touch on arresting. Intellectually, we understand that schools are now a "pipeline to prison." Still, we want discipline at least within the curriculum…or we once did. Now we [...]
It is said that experience is the best teacher; I think for most, it is the worst. Too often, experience teaches us to be protective. We run. We fall and we run again, or least we did. But then there was the lesson. 'Do not dare. Approach [...]
By Megan Carpentier | Originally Published at The Raw Story. September 13, 2012 16:29 EDT Like many Americans, my access to a quality public education was the single most important determining factor for my access to the middle class (via a college education funded by subsidized federally-issued [...]
By Pauline Lipman, Ph.D. | Originally Published at The New York Times. September 12, 2012 9:34 AM Photographic Credit; Posters saying "Save our School" line the windows at Overton Elementary. Under CPS's closing proposal, Overton students would be sent to Mollison. Both schools are on probation. As [...]
Americans love their freedom and the freedom to choose – well that is the best. We want to choose our cars, our sushi bars; we want the optimal plan. When it comes to our children there can be no exception. Parents will do anything to ensure that [...]
On April 29, 1992, at the Ventura County courthouse in Simi Valley, home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, a jury of ten whites, one Asian and one Latino delivered not guilty verdicts in all assault charges but one against four Los Angeles (LA) police [...]
By Joyce McFadden | Originally Published at Huffington Post. July 9, 2012 Updated September 8, 2012 5:12 AM EDT | Photographic Credit; Collin Key [ Flickr "The day I received my period, my mother gave me a pad and told me never to let boys play with [...]
