By Faiven Feshazion | Originally Published at Melisa Harris Perry Show. January 29, 2013 | Updated January 7, 2013 Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy There are an overwhelming number of reports that hundreds of schools across the country are scheduled [...]
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 [...]
Getty Images/The Washington Post Colorblindness! This is the Common Core that we never address. We speak about testing, and touch on arresting. Intellectually, we understand that schools are now a "pipeline to prison." Still, we want discipline at least within the curriculum…or we once did. Now we [...]
By Pauline Lipman, Ph.D. | Originally Published at The New York Times. September 12, 2012 9:34 AM Photographic Credit; Posters saying "Save our School" line the windows at Overton Elementary. Under CPS's closing proposal, Overton students would be sent to Mollison. Both schools are on probation. As [...]
Illustration by Andreas Samuelsson. Photograph by Thomas Hannich When old is new again and new is old the conversation must be about education. Throughout our history people have fought for the right to educate all equally and then turned the mission over to the masters, the moguls, [...]
By Elizabeth Whitman | Originally Published at The Nation. April 26, 2012 Schools have morphed from extensions of a community into centers that more closely resemble factories and prisons, says David Stovall, associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. What will it take to confront [...]
Photograph; AP/Getty Images By Noam Chomsky | Originally Published at In These Times. April 4, 2012 One of America’s greatest achievements is being defunded and degraded by the dictates of the marketplace. Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have [...]
