Bringing Our Passions To School
What is An Education?
"Stay in School." "An education will serve you well." These are the words of a Mom, Dad, or Guardian who cares and perhaps, has yet to achieve their dream. Persons who did as is customarily done, echo the same. However, there are hints evident in their faces [...]
Malnutrition, Poverty, and Intellectual Development
The times have changed. Poverty is less prominent in the news. President Johnson's Great Society Plan is a thing of the past. The War On Poverty that brought into being the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has long since evolved. President Johnson and Congress, at the time, [...]
Shooters Transformed by a New Era of Virtual Dehumanization?
By Michael Meurer | Originally Published at TruthOut. February 22, 2013 10:30 After the mass murder of 20 children and 6 teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, by a disturbed 20-year-old on December 14, 2012, the dominant media narrative quickly turned into a national [...]
Understanding How Children Develop Empathy
Illustration; Joyce Hesselberth Sympathy is sweet, but empathy is excellent. While it is nice to know that someone cares; it cannot compare to what might be shared – our pains and our sorrows. Sympathy keeps us safe – and separate. Empathy Educates, it exfoliates. It is other [...]
By the Numbers: Childhood Poverty in the U.S.
Poor Kids | FRONTLINE | PBS Originally Published at Frontline. Public Broadcast Services. What does it mean to grow up poor in America? In Poor Kids, airing tonight at 10 pm on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE follows several of the more than 13 million children in [...]
Before a Test, a Poverty of Words
Photograph; PREP Simone Brown helping a student at Intermediate School 292 in Brooklyn prepare for the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, the subject of a recent lawsuit. By Ginia Bellafante | Originally Published at The New York Times. October 5, 2012 Not too long ago, I witnessed [...]
The Character of Our Content
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 [...]
What We Aren’t Telling Our Daughters About Sex
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 [...]