Graphic By Rally4Babies Words are wealth and wealth is words. The statement conjures up all sorts of connotations. We see pictures and think a thousand words. We see words and picture in our mind the scene these paint. But what about the number 15,000, what do you [...]
Students who fail FCAT [The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tests] are threatened with removal or were. A "poorly written letter" only prompts people to ask, if the school is not selectively enrolling students why was a letter written at all. Charter School Retracts Letter That Threatens To Remove [...]
An inmate performs in a play at a public theatre in Lima, Peru. The theatre program is one of many prison activities popping up around the globe to help reduce overcrowding and rehabilitate prisoners. (Photo from Reuters/Enrique Castro-Mendivil) As tots we were given time to grow. Everyone [...]
Are standards too high or is the pressure to be above standard too high for even the elite to meet? Throughout the nation parents agonize over disparate concerns; do I care more about my child's mental health or their career path? Mom's and Dads are torn in [...]
Diane Ravitch joins Melissa Harris Perry. The two discuss Ravitch's latest book, The Reign of Error." The question is what might terrorize Americans most? The answer is anything but ambivalent. The problem is our citizens do not see what hits them directly in the face. Slowly and [...]
New Orleans School Performance Scores Reports and Revelations Failing Schools 2013 According to Bobby Jindal (compared to 62% in 2005) Originally Published at CrazyCrawfish. October 27, 2013 Some of you may have seen reports in the Picayune or from Leslie Jacob’s “Educate [...]
Image; Childhood poverty impacted how much the two regions of the prefrontal cortex (as shown in orange circles) were engaged during emotion regulation. (Credit: University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine) By Sherri McGinnis González | Originally Published at University of Illinois Chicago. October 21, 2013 [...]
Cindy Jordan, right, mother of two students at Granada Elementary Community Charter in Granada Hills, joins about 50 parents protesting an L.A. Unified order to reorganize classes according to students' levels of English fluency. The move has sparked a storm of protests across the district. (Al Seib, [...]
Using poverty alone to explain the achievement gap may do more harm than good. By Richard Rothstein | Originally Published at The Economic Policy Institute [EPI]. October 10, 2013 On her “Bridging Differences” blog, educator Deborah Meier began a discussion with Mike Petrilli of the [...]
