Photographic Credit; Chris Hondros/Getty By Sally Kohn | Originally Published at The Daily Beast. May 16, 2014 Sure, it’s mostly the courts, but as we approach the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, charter schools and testing regimes are reinforcing segregation. Sixty years ago [...]
By Paul Thomas | Originally Published at TruthOut. Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:02 So why do self-styled education "reformers" keep ignoring class issues? Ignoring Poverty as Education Reform As Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan represents both the discourse and policy currently driving education reform in the [...]
Photograph; The petition was delivered five days before the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed school segregation. You Signed. Sealed. And Southern Poverty Law Delivered the Petition Demanding Florida Governor End State-Sponsored Discrimination Against Minority Students. [...]
President Obama and 2014 National Teacher of the Year finalists applaud Sean McComb, second from right, a high school English teacher from Maryland, as the 2014 National Teacher of the Year during an event at the White House. | Photograph Credit/Susan Walsh/AP By Ross Brenneman | Originally [...]
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 [...]
There is. Here's what it might look like. By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published atThe Becoming Radical. August 20, 2013 and AlterNet. April 22, 2014 During three decades of accountability based on standards and high-stakes testing at the state level and another decade-plus of federal [...]
A Problem With the Common Core By Elizabeth Phillips | Originally Published at The New York Times. April 9, 2014 I’D like to tell you what was wrong with the tests my students took last week, but I can’t. Pearson’s $32 million contract with New York State [...]
Briana Griffiths, 9, studies for her English test. More than 1.2 million children statewide, including 450,000 in New York City, took new state exams over six school days. By Michelle Chen | Originally Published at The Nation. April 7, 2014 After years of drilling, assessing and scoring [...]
By Petr Svab | Originally Published at Epoch Times. April 6, 2014 Photograph; Danny Katch attends a test opt-out rally near his daughter’s school, P.S. 69 in Jackson Heights, Queens, April 1. (Petr Svab/Epoch Times) NEW YORK—Last week was quite different for Lila, 9, compared to most [...]
