By Christopher Bonastia | Originally Published at Huffington Post. January 11, 2012 12:56 PM EST | Photographic Credit; Black Educator When I tell people here in New York City -- friends, students, acquaintances, strangers who sit next to me on the train and cabdrivers who don't slide [...]
How we remember the history of school segregation can be a mystery. What we do and have done to change our history – that is the greater mystery. By Christopher Bonastia| Originally Published at Huffington Post Black Voices. January 11, 2012 When I tell people here in [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Our Future. January 6, 2012 I remember the day that the poor kids showed up at our school. It was in 1964. Classes had already started, and I was in second grade, surrounded by my familiar friends from my mostly [...]
Often we know well what is. We experience the trials and tribulations that today, we call education reform. But how did we get here? What was it that occurred? Let us look at our history.Los Angeles: The Proving Ground of Education Reform By Catherine Cloutier | Originally [...]
By Catherine Cloutier | Originally Published at News 21. USC Annenberg. School of Communication and Journalism | Interact with the Shadow Secretaries of Education Click for Interactive Image When Microsoft magnate Bill Gates decided a decade ago that the “solution” to what he [...]
By Lee Fang | Originally Published at The Nation. November 16, 2011Under the banner of high-tech progress, corporate lobbyists have rammed through legislation privatizing K-12 education across the country. This article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. If the national movement [...]
Inherent within each of us is conflict. Generally speaking, we think growth is good. Progress is a sign of achievement. As George Bernard Shaw so aptly articulated, “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” Indeed, politically, at one time [...]
Sir Ken Robinson speaks during the Dalai Lama Center's Educating the Heart Series. He discusses the importance of an education that educates not just the mind, but also the heart. “In any list of what it means to be human, empathy, intuition, imagination and compassion would surely [...]
Alexander poses a thought-provoking and insightful thesis: Mass incarceration, justified and organized around the war on drugs, has become the new face of racial discrimination in the United States. Since 1970, the number of people behind bars in this country has increased 600 percent. What [...]
