Photograph; Drummond Montessori School students were pulled out of class and questioned about the recent ISAT tests Thursday afternoon 3-20-14. | Kevin Tanaka/For Sun-Times Media By Jon Seidel And Mitch Dudek | Originally Published at Chicago Sun Times. March 20, 2014 Furious Bucktown elementary school parents said [...]
By Karen Wolfe | Originally Published at LA Progressive. March 19, 2014 Few if any political issues have brought together liberals and the tea party to the extent that the Common Core State Standards have. How can something be equally objectionable to political opposites? Tea partiers ideologically [...]
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 Gaayathri Nair | Originally Published at The Feminist Wire. March 18, 2014 I am a good immigrant girl. We only ever spoke English in my family. It is my first and only language. I understand fragments of my mother tongue, but the words twist and [...]
Graphic; Opt-Out Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System/AngertAesthetics Originally Published by Ricardo Rosa | March 16, 2014 | Download Flyer Opt-Out Massachusetts I often hear that parental voices are needed in our educational system. Your response to this letter will determine whether or not you truly mean to include [...]
Graphic; Olimpia Zagnoli By Milena Tsvetkova and Michael Macy | Originally Published at Gray Matter. The New York times. March 14, 2014 ONE morning in December of 2012, at the drive-through window of a Tim Hortons coffee shop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a customer paid for her order [...]
Photograph by Matthew Hinton | Kelly and Noah Fischer Originally Published at Southern Poverty Law Center. | March 12, 2014 Kelly Fischer’s hopes were quickly dashed last fall. She was attending a High School Fair in New Orleans, a chance for parents to meet representatives from the [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published The Becoming Radical. March 9, 2014 As a teacher educator, I now spend much of my spring visiting schools and observing my seniors who are learning to teach in extended field experiences (my university’s version of student teaching). What [...]
