Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo spoke at a rally in support of charter schools on the steps outside the State Capitol in Albany last month. | Credit Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times By Javier C. Hernández and Susanne Craig | Originally Published at The New York [...]
By Paul L. Thonas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. April 2, 2014 children guessed (but only a few) and down they forgot as up they grew “[anyone lived in a pretty how town],” e.e. cummings In one of those early years of becoming and [...]
Is public education doomed to destruction? Has it already been done in? Everyone has an opinion. The question is will the Vergara v. California court decision permanently define what might be? Will education equity be set free? Stanford Professor Linda Darling-Hammond discusses the case and examines the [...]
Photograph; The American Dream by Margaret Bourke-White By Philip Bump | Originally Published at The Wire. April 1, 2014 Americans don't want to imagine that our racist history is actually an ongoing, racist reality. We like to look at racism as a thing that has gotten better [...]
Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Published at EmpathyEducates. March 31, 2014 In New Jersey, the Governor spends one million in taxpayer dollars for "full vindication;" yet there is nothing for education. In Kansas, legislators debate whether a teacher can spank, but as far as the [...]
Photograph; (Courtesy of Steven Depolo, CC BY 2.0) By Mychal Denzel Smith | Originally Published at The Nation. March 28, 2014 - 2:46 PM ET The school-to-prison pipeline, to my mind, is the most insidious arm of this country's prison-industrial complex. Under the guise of protecting our [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. Matrch 28, 2014 With Waiting for excuses for the inexcusable, Leonard Pitts Jr. offers us all a watershed moment—one that involves reclaiming the language and the narratives in order to take direct action against the [...]
Photograph; David Rapheal, Brooklyn borough assessment implementation director for New York schools, at a meeting on the opt-out movement on Tuesday | Credit Anthony Lanzilote for The New York Times By Ginia Bellafante | Originally Published at The New York Times. March 28, 2014 In the coming [...]
Study: NY Schools Most Segregated In America By Lilly Workneh | Originally Published at The Grio. March 26, 2014 at 12:30 PM Minorities are likely to become the majority population in America in less than three decades – and yet, with this soon-to-be expected reality, [...]
