Photograph; The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, is known for its violent past and white-hooded costume "The more things change the more they stay the same." "The times, they are a changin'." Will we? Florida school named after KKK leader to change [...]
Irene Robinson stands outside Overton Elementary School on the South Side of Chicago on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. Robinson, who attended this school as a child, is upset that the school was among 47 public schools that closed in the city in June. Her grandchildren attended the [...]
Photograph; Teachers need to be careful about which students they steer toward vocational school. AP Photo/Brendan Hoffman By Angela Romans | Originally Published at Quartz. December 9, 2013 My brother, a businessman who went to Brown and MIT, and I have a running dinnertime argument. It goes [...]
KJ Dell’Antonia By Tamika Thompson | Originally Published at The New York Times. December 6, 2013 Recently, my 27-month-old daughter, Morgan, asked this: “Mommy, can you hand me the black one?” Sitting with her on the living-room rug amid a mess of plastic building bricks, I realized [...]
By Paul L. Thomas | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. November 26, 2013 Rob McEntarffer (@rmcenta) Tweeted a question to me about my blog post, The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievement, asking: “can Grit research (Duckworth, etc) be used as a humanizing/empowering tool, rather [...]
Photograph; Shoppers at a food pantry. (Reuters) And why their "bad" decisions might be more rational than you'd think. By Derek Thompson | Originally Published at The Atlantic. November 22, 2013 In August, Science published a landmark study concluding that poverty, itself, hurts our ability to make [...]
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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 Eric Westervelt | Originally Published at National Public Radio. November 21, 2013 5:15 PM | Listen to the story Photograph; Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican, cut more than $1 billion from the state's K-12 budget, which hit the state-controlled Philadelphia district hardest. This is the [...]
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 [...]
