Testimony At Education City Council Hearing From CTS Member By Jeff Nichols | Originally Published at Change The stakes. November 27, 2013 Testimony In Support Of City Council Resolution 1394-2012 Jeff Nichols, Change the Stakes November 25, 2013 Thank you Councilman Jackson for this opportunity to [...]
By Becky Schlikerman | Originally Published at The Chicago Sun times. Last Modified: Nov 27, 2013 10:09AM Chicago Public Schools has decided against using inBloom, a controversial data storehouse run by a nonprofit, and will work directly with a state-run data program, a spokeswoman said. In Illinois, [...]
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Originally Published at Bill Moyers and Company. November 22, 2013 Education expert Henry Giroux tells Bill public schools are suffering from an overemphasis on academic testing as teachers are stripped of their powers, in schools with disciplinary systems that resemble prisons. “The discipline, particularly in these urban [...]
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee |Originally Published at ThinkProgress. November 21, 2013 On Wednesday, actress America Ferrera led a solidarity march with hundreds of pro-immigration activist groups at the University of Texas at Austin to protest against a scheduled game called “Catch an illegal immigrant” which prompted heavy [...]
By Gina Crosley-Corcoran, CD(DONA), MPH(c) | Originally Published at The Feminist Breeder. November 20, 2013 | Photograph; ("This was a much nicer camper setup than the one we had.") Years ago, some feminist on the internet told me I was "Privileged." THE FUCK!?!?" I said. I came [...]
Crisis Discourse, Utopian Expectations, and Accountability Failures By Paul L. Thomas | Furman University | Originally Published at Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 4(1) 2011 "It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. . . . [T]he slovenliness of our [...]
By Paul Buchheit | Originally Published at Salon | This article originally appeared on AlterNet November 19, 2013 Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast called the public school system a “socialist regime.” Michelle Rhee cautions us against commending students for their ‘participation’ in sports and other activities. Privatizers [...]
Photograph; Opponents of the Common Core State Standards kept their children out of school Nov. 18 to protest what they say is a federal overreach. Might we blame a bad Common Core State Standards rollout on a website or could it be that the website rollout went [...]
Photograph; The Franklin K. Lane Educational Campus in Brooklyn. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been an advocate for the letter grade system, which has become one of the country’s most complex. May the era of school grades begin its descent. May all those affected in New York, [...]
