A Problem With the Common Core By Elizabeth Phillips | Originally Published at The New York Times. April 9, 2014 I’D like to tell you what was wrong with the tests my students took last week, but I can’t. Pearson’s $32 million contract with New York State [...]
By Amanda Ripley | Originally Published at Amanda Ripley. April 9, 2014 | Photographic Credit; Mike Davis (Stephenson H.S., Stone Mountain, Ga.) and Arik Armstead (Pleasant Grove H.S., Elk Grove, Calif). By Photo by Forrest Berkshire, U.S. Army Cadet Command public affairs) | Flickr If you were [...]
House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel | Scott Keeler | Times This voucher program has relied on a convoluted redirect of tax dollars to avoid running afoul of the state Constitution that prevents public dollars from flowing to religious institutions. A Times Editorial | Originally Published at [...]
Photograph; Your neighborhood is being gentrified if there is a coffeehouse with a mustached-indie-sustainable-farmer-hipster-barista who's very serious... | Andrew Burton/Getty Images Too many claim white people are at risk in communities of color. Really, it's those communities that are threatened By Daniel José Older | Originally Published [...]
Photograph By Todd Heisler/The New York Times, via Redux By Bonnie Bertram | Originally Published at The Daily Beast. April 8, 2014 When a phrase like ‘The Knockout Game,’ ‘Crack Babies,’ or ‘Super Predators’ is dubbed in the media, the story takes on a life [...]
Which 'Culture' Will We Adopt? Inmates at the Caddo Juvenile Detention Center in Shreveport, La., in 2010.Val Horvath/The Times/AP By Dana Goldstein | Originally Published at AlterNet. April 7, 2014 Destiny was in eighth grade when, in the middle of an altercation with another student, she grabbed [...]
Briana Griffiths, 9, studies for her English test. More than 1.2 million children statewide, including 450,000 in New York City, took new state exams over six school days. By Michelle Chen | Originally Published at The Nation. April 7, 2014 After years of drilling, assessing and scoring [...]
By K. Abel | Originally Published at The Atlanta Black Star. April 7, 2014 The United States of America has been labeled the melting pot of the Western world by branding itself as a haven for all people seeking success and freedom. Despite a brutal history of [...]
Graphic Credit; AngertAesthetics By Melody Petersen | Originally Published at The Orange County Register. April 5, 2014 Updated April 7, 2014 Every day, thousands of Orange County students log in to their school-assigned Google accounts to work on lessons and send emails to teachers and classmates. What [...]
