By Raynard Sanders, Ed.D. | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. June 19, 2014 Public education in New Orleans has been a nightmare for parents since the state took over most of the schools post Hurricane Katrina. The Louisiana Department of Education has gone to great lengths to mislead [...]
Photograph Credit; GuidoVrola; iStock By Jordan Weissmann | Originally Published at Slate. June 12 2014 | The amazing, completely made-up statistic a judge used to strike down teacher tenure in California This week Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu handed the education reform movement a stunning [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. June 12, 2014 [Reposting from Truthout as a response to the Vergaras ruling in California to dismantle tenure. See also Adam Bessie's A Tale of Two Vergaras: Of Stardom and the End of Teacher Tenure.] [...]
Photograph; Students walk in the hallway as they enter the lunch line of the cafeteria at Draper Middle School in Rotterdam, N.Y. | Hans Pennink/AP By Ben Casselman | Originally Published at FiveThirtyEight. June 10, 2014 6:52 AM The slow economic recovery is taking a toll on [...]
Julia Macias, at a news conference Tuesday, was one of nine students who claimed tenure laws left bad teachers in place. Credit Monica Almeida/The New York Times Months ago we asked; could it be that at present education policies are designed to serve only a selected population. [...]
By Jennifer Berkshire | Originally Published at EduShyster. June 9, 2014 Do you dream of being part of our nation’s greatest experiment in urban education? I know I do—which is why I was thrilled to be the recipient of a recent Google ad inviting me to Teach, [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. June 6, 2014 From the beginning of the call for and debate about Common Core, I have taken a clear stand against the promise of standards-based reform; for example, Why Common Standards Won’t Work: A [...]
Have you ever said, did, or been something that got you in trouble? If not as an adult perhaps, at the age of four you hugged a teacher. Might that be a crime? Surely, this act merits a school suspension. It is so cruel. But it cannot [...]
A drop in suspension rates throughout L.A. Unified came after the Los Angeles Board of Education and superintendent called for fewer suspensions as concern grew nationwide that removing students from school imperils their academic achievement and disproportionately harms minorities. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) By Teresa [...]
