Photograph; David Rapheal, Brooklyn borough assessment implementation director for New York schools, at a meeting on the opt-out movement on Tuesday | Credit Anthony Lanzilote for The New York Times By Ginia Bellafante | Originally Published at The New York Times. March 28, 2014 In the coming [...]
(Credit: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi) By Mary Elizabeth Williams | Originally Published at Salon. March 27, 2014Liberal arts take a beating again -- but don't sweat it, humanities majors Here’s a pop quiz for you. What words come to mind when I say “liberal arts education”? Are they, [...]
ThinkStock By Alfie Kohn | Originally Published at The Atlantic. March 25 2014, 8:12 AM ET The case for self-esteem, success, and even an occasional participation trophy It isn't usually spelled out quite so bluntly, but an awful lot of parenting practices are based on the belief [...]
Illustration; By Jean Jullien And other insights from a ground- breaking study of how parents impact children’s academic achievement By Dana Goldstein | Originally Published at The Atlantic. March 19 2014, 9:06 PM ET One of the central tenets of raising kids in America is that parents [...]
Photo: Sanofi Pasteur/Flickr. It begins before we enter school. You may have seen this in your sister, in your mother, or perhaps it is you. Have you tried and did less well than expected, not performed up to snuff; have you been a disappointment – to yourself [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. March 17, 2014 Albeit from different ideologies, NPR and Fox News have something really disturbing in common: Bias masked as, to use the Fox slogan, “fair and balanced.” In fact, the breezy tone of NPR [...]
By Dorinda Carter Andrews | Originally Published at AcademiaEdu. March 10, 2014 In this talk, Dorinda Carter Andrews challenges us to consider how gaps in critical consciousness and mindsets for adults and students in schools prevent us from providing equitable schooling experiences for all students. Specifically, Carter [...]
Photograph by Angel Franco/The New York Times By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. March 6 , 2014 In the often cited scene near the end of Notting Hill when Anna Scott stands in William Thacker’s shabby book store and asks him [...]
Students at Shamrock Gardens Elementary in Charlotte in 2012. Photo: Nancy Pierce By Jane Stancill jstancill@newsobserver.com | Originally Published at News Observer. February 28, 2014 DURHAM — A new study by researchers at Duke University documented a ripple effect of behavioral problems in middle schools where higher [...]
