By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. October 23, 2014 | Rashad McCants won a title for UNC while skating through sham classes. (AP/Eric Gay) Writing about the newly released investigation of academic fraud at the University of North Carolina, Barry Petchesky [...]
By Raynard Sanders, Ed.D. | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. October 11, 2014 Kim Ueyama engages students in her geometry class at Carver Collegiate and Carver Preparatory Academies, December 17, 2013. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune) Every year post Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, charter [...]
The moments of protest and frenzied media coverage that followed the deaths of Michael Brown, Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and too many others always bring me to the same thought: We have a problem with how we talk about the lives of young [...]
By Les Leopold | Originally Published at AlterNet. September 30, 2014 We're number one? Hardly. A recent international report demolishes several deeply held myths about our educational system. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report, which compares the educational systems of over 30 developed [...]
Photograph; Prekindergartners at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology in New Orleans practice singing "Jingle Bell Rock" in preparation for their upcoming holiday show. | Christopher Powers/Education Week There are Miracles that never were and those that flourish unabated. Who could [...]
By Brittney Pressley | Originally Published at LinkedIn September 25, 2014 | Children at play on Primrose Hill in acrylic, by Gudawer Kalirai. Let's face it, adult life is boring. Paying bills (check) Eating healthy to watch your aging figure (check) Going to a job you don't [...]
What are we teaching our children? What do we want them to achieve or believe? By Brittney Pressley | Originally Published at LinkedIn. September 22, 2014 Okay, so it's not exactly an illusion but I believe that most of us have a misconception of what success really [...]
Photograph; New Orleans Students. NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune archive) Introductory Reflection by Raynard Sanders, Ed.D., Host of The New Orleans Imperative The term "High Standards" is a part of the education reformer$ in Louisiana daily script. For the past nine years they have been quick to point [...]
Image courtesy of Tim Pierce | Creative Commons> By Paul Thomas, Ed.D., Furman University | Originally Published at the The Conversation. September 3, 2014 If you’re an eight-year-old living in Charleston, South Carolina, you’re soon going to need to study extra hard at reading. The US state [...]
