Photograph; Credit Brent Nicastro By Jennifer Holladay | Originally Published at Rethinking Schools. Volume 27 No.2 - Winter 2012-2013 A parent confronts bias in early elementary literature Last spring, my 2nd-grade daughter came home with an extra assignment—a worksheet she hadn’t completed in class for a [...]
Photograph; The Bronx High School of Science is one of eight schools in New York for which a shared exam is the sole criterion for entrance. A federal complaint regarding this policy was filed on Thursday. By Al Baker | Originally Published The New York Times. September [...]
Getty Images/The Washington Post Colorblindness! This is the Common Core that we never address. We speak about testing, and touch on arresting. Intellectually, we understand that schools are now a "pipeline to prison." Still, we want discipline at least within the curriculum…or we once did. Now we [...]
It is said that experience is the best teacher; I think for most, it is the worst. Too often, experience teaches us to be protective. We run. We fall and we run again, or least we did. But then there was the lesson. 'Do not dare. Approach [...]
Americans love their freedom and the freedom to choose – well that is the best. We want to choose our cars, our sushi bars; we want the optimal plan. When it comes to our children there can be no exception. Parents will do anything to ensure that [...]
By Joyce McFadden | Originally Published at Huffington Post. July 9, 2012 Updated September 8, 2012 5:12 AM EDT | Photographic Credit; Collin Key [ Flickr "The day I received my period, my mother gave me a pad and told me never to let boys play with [...]
"Time outs don’t work for parents who are unwilling to put themselves in an adult time out — which is what’s really needed" By Jayson Gaddis | Good Men Project. July 3, 2012 | Photographic Credit Matthew Brown/E+/Getty Images. In my opinion, we need a big [...]
By Joyce McFadden | Originally Published at Huffington Post. June 13, 2012 5:47 PM EDT | Photographic Credit; francisco_osorio[Flickr] As mothers, we want to do everything humanly possible to make sure our daughters live happy, healthy lives. I spoke with 450 women about whatever was most important [...]
Drawing By James Stevenson. By Jonah Lehrer | Originally Published at The New Yorker. June 12, 2012 Editors’ Note: The introductory paragraphs of this post appeared in similar form in an October, 2011, column by Jonah Lehrer for the Wall Street Journal. We regret the duplication of [...]
