Illustration; Joyce Hesselberth Sympathy is sweet, but empathy is excellent. While it is nice to know that someone cares; it cannot compare to what might be shared – our pains and our sorrows. Sympathy keeps us safe – and separate. Empathy Educates, it exfoliates. It is other [...]
Poor Kids | FRONTLINE | PBS Originally Published at Frontline. Public Broadcast Services. What does it mean to grow up poor in America? In Poor Kids, airing tonight at 10 pm on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE follows several of the more than 13 million children in [...]
In Photograph; Karen Lewis and Carl West Over the past several days I had the privilege of being involved in several Chicago education events with Parents, Students, Teachers, CTU and Core members. On Thursday Evening the Black Caucus of CTU sponsored a discussion with President Karen Lewis [...]
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, [...]
By Monique Morris | Originally Published at Open Society. October 5, 2012 |
Photograph; PREP Simone Brown helping a student at Intermediate School 292 in Brooklyn prepare for the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, the subject of a recent lawsuit. By Ginia Bellafante | Originally Published at The New York Times. October 5, 2012 Not too long ago, I witnessed [...]
Photograph; Credit Brent Nicastro By Jennifer Holladay | Originally Published at Rethinking Schools. Volume 27 No.2 - Winter 2012-2013 A parent confronts bias in early elementary literature Last spring, my 2nd-grade daughter came home with an extra assignment—a worksheet she hadn’t completed in class for a [...]
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 [...]
