Photograph; Atlantic Author Ta-Nehisi Coates and Joy Reid walk and talk about the competition that we see in society and in our schools. By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. May 29, 2014 You may have read or heard about The Atlantic article, The Case [...]
AP Photograph | Carolyn Kaster By Bryce Covert Originally Published at Think Progress. May 20, 2014 AT 3:57 PM The unemployment rate for black workers has been significantly higher than for white workers since government data has been collected. But despite the fact that college graduates fare [...]
Paul Tough's meticulous, fascinating New York Times Magazine piece ("Who Gets to Graduate?") is, in some ways, a story about signaling. What signals do students receive--not just in college but from birth--and how do those signals shape the stories they tell themselves when they run [...]
Photograph: Echo/Getty Images/Cultura RF By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. May 5, 2014 The term “digital divide” is commonly used in education as a subset of the “achievement gap”—representing the inequity between impoverished and affluent students. Both terms, however, tend to [...]
By Maggie Fox | Originally Published at NBCNews April 29, 2014 11:50 am It may come as no surprise to teachers, but girls do better than boys in school, a new study finds. What may be a surprise is that this holds true at all [...]
"Parent Involvement" can take many directions. Do we teach our children to be autonomous or do we ostensibly "help" them? "Too much is never enough" has become an American tradition. Too much love, too much guidance…are we hurting our children? Researchers have studied this question and ask [...]
By Amanda Ripley | Originally Published at Amanda Ripley. April 9, 2014 | Photographic Credit; Mike Davis (Stephenson H.S., Stone Mountain, Ga.) and Arik Armstead (Pleasant Grove H.S., Elk Grove, Calif). By Photo by Forrest Berkshire, U.S. Army Cadet Command public affairs) | Flickr If you were [...]
By Kevin Drum | Originally Published at Mother Jones. April 2, 2014 Vikram Bath takes on the cult of Finland today. What's that? You didn't realize Finland had a cult? Well, it does in the education community, where Finland's consistently high scores on the international PISA test [...]
Photograph Credit Chris Hondros/Getty By Conor P. Williams | Originally Published at The Daily Beast. March 31, 2014 New York schools are the most segregated in the country according to a new study, but blaming charter schools, which only serve 6% of city students, won’t fix the [...]
