By Peniel E. Joseph | Originally Published at TheRoot| January 15, 2014 | The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial | Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images Today, on what should have been Martin Luther King Jr.’s 85th birthday, it’s time to reflect on his legacy and reimagine the significance [...]
By | Originally Published at Education Justice. January 14, 2014 Nearly two years since the Newark Public Schools (NPS) agreed to a court-ordered Settlement to improve the delivery of special education services, the latest compliance report filed by NPS shows little progress in meeting deadlines for serving [...]
Early one Saturday morning I found my landlady standing in front of our building, staring at the wall, with a bottle of bleach and a pair of rubber gloves. “What are you working on?” I asked, with a forced cheeriness that comes from being a little [...]
Photograph; Students at a charter school in Washington, D.C., in 2012.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images By Amy B. Dean | Originally Published at Al Jazeera. January 13, 2014 Immigrant children deserve excellent schooling too Public schools have historically been key institutions in our nation of immigrants. [...]
Illustration By David Biskup. New York Times Once upon a time every state in the Union, unequivocally guaranteed a free public education in its Constitution, but that soon may end. Within the month we will know more. The Kansas Supreme Court is expected to decide what Governors [...]
Originally Published at Deb Meier. December 31, 2013 Dear readers, It’s been a while since I’ve written in this space. But I’m mending my ways. What set me off? My granddaughter just came across something interesting—and not new. In 2001 PBS put together a video called School: [...]
Photograph; Carmen Farina reacts during a news conference, Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 at MS 51 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Farina, a former teacher, principal and longtime advocate of early childhood education, will be the next leader of the nation's largest public school system. (AP [...]
Walter Dyett High School, pictured here, is being phased out by the Chicago Public Schools. Since 2001, the district has closed, phased-out or turned around about 150 schools. The vast majority of the students affected by the school closures have been poor or African American. Introductory Essay [...]
Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEucates. December 24, 2013 'Twas the day after Christmas and all through the [Senate and] House. Not a creature was stirring. Not even a mouse. We knew it was coming. Once again promises of salvation would deliver [...]
