By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Campaign For America's Future. October 2, 2014 | Parents, residents, and teachers protest history curriculum. Jefferson County Schools. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post) When hundreds of high school students across a suburban school district outside of Denver, Colo. recently walked [...]
By Les Leopold | Originally Published at AlterNet. September 30, 2014 We're number one? Hardly. A recent international report demolishes several deeply held myths about our educational system. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report, which compares the educational systems of over 30 developed [...]
Photograph; Prekindergartners at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology in New Orleans practice singing "Jingle Bell Rock" in preparation for their upcoming holiday show. | Christopher Powers/Education Week There are Miracles that never were and those that flourish unabated. Who could [...]
By John Spencer | Originally Published at EducationReThink. September 27, 2014 I write this as a dad thinking about what will happen if my daughter someday breaks dress code. I’d like to think that I can avoid it, but I know that parents don’t always have control [...]
By Brittney Pressley | Originally Published at LinkedIn September 25, 2014 | Children at play on Primrose Hill in acrylic, by Gudawer Kalirai. Let's face it, adult life is boring. Paying bills (check) Eating healthy to watch your aging figure (check) Going to a job you don't [...]
When the emphasis is kept on how it's good for business, early-childhood education is popular. Just don't call it childcare. By Rachel M. Cohen | Originally Published at The American Prospect. September 22, 2014 | (AP Photo/The Monitor, Gabe Hernandez) In Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race, education has emerged [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. September 22, 2014 12:43 PM EDT I think I may have had a small mental break down last week. I knew it was coming, I was all tight with emotion after some of the responses I received on [...]
What are we teaching our children? What do we want them to achieve or believe? By Brittney Pressley | Originally Published at LinkedIn. September 22, 2014 Okay, so it's not exactly an illusion but I believe that most of us have a misconception of what success really [...]
Just released U.S. Census Bureau data reveal 45.3 million people were poor in America in 2013. One in three of those who are poor is a child. Children remain our poorest age group and children of color and those under five are the poorest. More [...]
