By Philip Bump | Originally Published at The Wire. March 10, 2014 8:04PM ET Asked to identify the age of a young boy that committed a felony, participants in a study routinely overestimated the age of black children far more than they did white kids. Worse: Cops [...]
Photo: Sanofi Pasteur/Flickr. It begins before we enter school. You may have seen this in your sister, in your mother, or perhaps it is you. Have you tried and did less well than expected, not performed up to snuff; have you been a disappointment – to yourself [...]
By Gaayathri Nair | Originally Published at The Feminist Wire. March 18, 2014 I am a good immigrant girl. We only ever spoke English in my family. It is my first and only language. I understand fragments of my mother tongue, but the words twist and [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. March 17, 2014 Albeit from different ideologies, NPR and Fox News have something really disturbing in common: Bias masked as, to use the Fox slogan, “fair and balanced.” In fact, the breezy tone of NPR [...]
Graphic; Opt-Out Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System/AngertAesthetics Originally Published by Ricardo Rosa | March 16, 2014 | Download Flyer Opt-Out Massachusetts I often hear that parental voices are needed in our educational system. Your response to this letter will determine whether or not you truly mean to include [...]
Photograph; A report released today by New Detroit showed there are significant racial gaps in education and income across metro Detroit, with Latinos and African Americans lagging behind whites and Asian Americans. / January photo by Kimberly P. Mitchell/Detroit Free While the study reveals the situation is [...]
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback listens to kindergarten students during a class on Jan. 23 at Roesland Elementary School in Roeland Park, Ks.John Milburn/AP Originally Published at Education Justice. March 14, 2014 | The Luke Gannon v. State of Kansas Decision After a 16-day trial in Gannon v. [...]
Graphic; Olimpia Zagnoli By Milena Tsvetkova and Michael Macy | Originally Published at Gray Matter. The New York times. March 14, 2014 ONE morning in December of 2012, at the drive-through window of a Tim Hortons coffee shop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a customer paid for her order [...]
By Ray Salazar, The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino English Teacher | Originally Published at Chicago Now. March 14, 2014 at 12:27 am A couple of weeks ago, I participated in a conversation about Chicago Public Schools with a group that learned about our schools mainly through [...]
