We can do it! Without a penny more being spent, we can seriously and sincerely invest in public college education. But we do not. Why is that? Consider the culture, the climate and the chance that we might embrace change and you might find some [...]
Photograph By Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press | A man sleeps on a sidewalk in the Old Port section of Portland, Maine. The Census Bureau announced in 2010 that the overall number of people living in poverty climbed. By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The [...]
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, [...]
Photograph; The Bronx High School of Science is one of eight schools in New York for which a shared exam is the sole criterion for entrance. A federal complaint regarding this policy was filed on Thursday. By Al Baker | Originally Published The New York Times. September [...]
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 [...]
On April 29, 1992, at the Ventura County courthouse in Simi Valley, home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, a jury of ten whites, one Asian and one Latino delivered not guilty verdicts in all assault charges but one against four Los Angeles (LA) police [...]
If it takes a village to raise a child, the same village must share accountability when many children are educationally abandoned. In New York City, the nation’s largest school system, on average student outcomes and their opportunity to learn are more determined by the neighborhood [...]
Photograph; Q99.info By Liz Dwyer | Originally Published at Good. February 29, 2012 In a bold comparative analysis of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Jada Williams, a 13-year old eighth grader at School #3 in Rochester, New York, asserted that in her experience, today's [...]
In American society, we can't avoid the fact that socioeconomic disparities are racial disparities By Joe Pettit | Originally Published at The Baltimore Sun. February 22, 2012 | Photographic Credit; Chris Ryan/Getty Images Imagine a report that reached the following three conclusions: In Maryland, 35 percent [...]
