Originally Published AllIn at @allinwithchrisMSNBC. All In With Chris Hayes The academic school year ended early for the 435 public school students of Buena Vista School District in Saginaw, Michigan. As the district’s slow-burning budget crisis came to a head, its three schools have been shut down [...]
RNC To Discuss Growing Opposition To Controversial Common Core Curriculum Originally Published at The Illinois Review April 11, 2013 Los Angeles - The concerns about the federal Common Core curriculum and the national standards it would impose on local schools reached the level of the Republican National [...]
Photograph; Art Threat Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert As children most of us are told to trust the police. He is friendly. She walks the beat. He knows your mother. She looks after your father's shop when he cannot be there out on the street. The [...]
We hear it said, things have changed or they have remained the stayed the same. How could that be? Contemplate our communities and it is evident that we have a colorful past. People are divided by race, religion, party rule, and cruel. It is well-known that we [...]
If only there were a solution “lying around” to attach to this crisis. By Kenzo Shibata | Originally Published at Jaconbin Magazine. February 22, 2013| Photographic Credit; Chicago 2012 — Greg Wass / Flickr In public policy circles, crises are called “focusing events” — bringing to light [...]
Photograph; Mark Makela for The New York Times | The Philadelphia school system plans to close 37 schools, including University City High School, by June. By Jon Hurdle The New York Times. January 28, 2013 PHILADELPHIA — The United States Department of Education is investigating complaints that [...]
Photograph; Sixty-five-year-old John Washington pick up his great grandson, Rayshaun Cates, at Samuel Morse Elementary School, a Chicago school closed in 2006. With tools from 1964, community activists are pushing the White House to turn federal education policy around. By James Cersonsky | Originally Published [...]
At the age of two your truculent behavior was likely described as terrible. By the time you were twelve or twenty-one it was thought just a phase. Surely, your combative nature would change. Conformity is ingrained. We teach it to our children. And children will follow a [...]
Students in a North Miami classroom. (Photo: Jodi Marr/CC) By Julianne Hing | Originally Published at Colorlines. October 16, 2012 It could have been something remarkable. Public education policy which acknowledges the reality of race and inequity? Except, Florida’s recent attempt at doing so has sparked widespread, [...]
