From education to gun control, progressive movements need to do a better job empowering the people whose interests they claim to serve. (Reuters/Joshua Lott) By Gary Younge | Originally Published at The Nation. April 23, 2014 At a panel titled “Grassroots Organizing” at the Network for Public [...]
Originally Published at Democracy Now! April 23, 2014 As the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a ban on affirmative action in Michigan and the country marks 60 years since the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education, we look at how segregation is still pervasive in U.S. [...]
Graphic; Prominent Ed-Tech Players' | Credit AngertAesthetics By Benjamin Herold | Originally Published at Education Week. April 22, 2014 Growing public concern about student-data privacy is prompting fresh scrutiny of the ways technology vendors handle children's educational information—and opening the gates for a flood of new questions [...]
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 13, 2009, during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Pool, George Bridges) Does race matter? Is discrimination an issue? On April 22, 2014, in a 6-2 decision the Supreme [...]
There is. Here's what it might look like. By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published atThe Becoming Radical. August 20, 2013 and AlterNet. April 22, 2014 During three decades of accountability based on standards and high-stakes testing at the state level and another decade-plus of federal [...]
By Paul Barnwell | The Atlantic . april 22, 2014 "Students’ reliance on screens for communication is detracting—and distracting—from their engagement in real-time talk." Recently I stood in front of my class, observing an all-too-familiar scene. Most of my students were covertly—or so they thought—pecking away [...]
Tammie Hagen-Noey, in her bedroom at a group home in Richmond, Va., earns $7.25 an hour at a local McDonald’s. |Credit; Drew Angerer for The New York Times Changed Life of the Poor: Better Off, but Far Behind By Annie Lowrey | The New York Times. April [...]
Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. On this the fifteen anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting it is time to remember what became our nations mission; we must protect our children. For Sam and his fellow survivors, it happens every [...]
Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma participated in a discussion with School Leader Tracy McDaniel and students and at KIPP Academy in Oklahoma City in April. | Credit Associated Press By Jonathan Martin | Originally Published The New York. April 19, [...]
