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The Source of Black Poverty Isn’t Black Culture, It’s American Culture

Photograph; The American Dream by Margaret Bourke-White By Philip Bump | Originally Published at The Wire. April 1, 2014 Americans don't want to imagine that our racist history is actually an ongoing, racist reality. We like to look at racism as a thing that has gotten better [...]

The Source of Black Poverty Isn’t Black Culture, It’s American Culture2016-11-29T17:38:07-05:00

The Real Reasons New York has the Country’s Most Segregated Schools

Photograph Credit Chris Hondros/Getty By Conor P. Williams | Originally Published at The Daily Beast. March 31, 2014 New York schools are the most segregated in the country according to a new study, but blaming charter schools, which only serve 6% of city students, won’t fix the [...]

The Real Reasons New York has the Country’s Most Segregated Schools2016-11-29T17:38:07-05:00

State’s School Funding Goes to Court

Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Published at EmpathyEducates. March 31, 2014 In New Jersey, the Governor spends one million in taxpayer dollars for "full vindication;" yet there is nothing for education. In Kansas, legislators debate whether a teacher can spank, but as far as the [...]

State’s School Funding Goes to Court2016-11-29T17:38:07-05:00

Marked Rise In A.D.H.D. Diagnoses Increases Concern Among Physicians

By Alan Schwarz and Sarah Cohen | Originally Published at The New York Times.March 31, 2013 Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according [...]

Marked Rise In A.D.H.D. Diagnoses Increases Concern Among Physicians2016-11-29T17:38:08-05:00

The School-to-Prison Pipeline Starts in Preschool

Photograph; (Courtesy of Steven Depolo, CC BY 2.0) By Mychal Denzel Smith | Originally Published at The Nation. March 28, 2014 - 2:46 PM ET The school-to-prison pipeline, to my mind, is the most insidious arm of this country's prison-industrial complex. Under the guise of protecting our [...]

The School-to-Prison Pipeline Starts in Preschool2016-11-29T17:38:08-05:00

Reclaiming “No Excuses”: A Reader

By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. Matrch 28, 2014 With Waiting for excuses for the inexcusable, Leonard Pitts Jr. offers us all a watershed moment—one that involves reclaiming the language and the narratives in order to take direct action against the [...]

Reclaiming “No Excuses”: A Reader2016-11-29T17:38:08-05:00

Standing Up to Testing

Photograph; David Rapheal, Brooklyn borough assessment implementation director for New York schools, at a meeting on the opt-out movement on Tuesday | Credit Anthony Lanzilote for The New York Times By Ginia Bellafante | Originally Published at The New York Times. March 28, 2014 In the coming [...]

Standing Up to Testing2016-11-29T17:38:08-05:00

The Drugging of the American Boy

Photos by Sarah Wilmer By Ryan D'Agostino | Originally Published at Esquire Magazine. March 27, 2014 | Published in the April 2014 issue By the time they reach high school, nearly 20 percent of all American boys will be diagnosed with ADHD. Millions of those boys will [...]

The Drugging of the American Boy2016-11-29T17:38:08-05:00

Hooray for “Worthless” Education!

(Credit: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi) By Mary Elizabeth Williams | Originally Published at Salon. March 27, 2014Liberal arts take a beating again -- but don't sweat it, humanities majors Here’s a pop quiz for you. What words come to mind when I say “liberal arts education”? Are they, [...]

Hooray for “Worthless” Education!2016-11-29T17:38:08-05:00
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