Photograph; Drugs don't 'cure' a disease called ADHD, the way that antibiotics cure pneumonia. Getty Images By Alison Gopnik | Originally Published at Wall Street Journal. February 21, 2014 In the past two decades, the number of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has nearly doubled. [...]
By Dean Paton | Originally Published at Yes! Magazine. February 21, 2014 In the rush to privatize the country’s schools, corporations and politicians have decimated school budgets, replaced teaching with standardized testing, and placed the blame on teachers and students. Until about 1980, America’s public schoolteachers [...]
At what point does education 'reform' become abuse? By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Campaign: America's Future. February 20, 2014 Last [month], NBC News reported about a school near St. Louis that conducted an “active shooter drill” in which campus law officers and teachers instruct high [...]
By Lyndsey Layton E-mail the writer | Originally Published at Washington Post. February 19, 2014 The head of the nation’s largest teachers union said the rollout of the new Common Core academic standards has been “completely botched” in many states and that wholesale changes taking place in [...]
In response to many calls from students, parents, and teachers, opinions have changed. Courses too. Now, the President of the National Education Association says it is time for a correction. In respect to the Common Core State Standards or the assessments used to fulfill this agenda, he [...]
By AJ Vicens and Brett Brownell | Originally Published at Mother Jones. February 19, 2014A new collection of data offers snapshots of life in black America, by the numbers.A lot of the stats you've heard about black America are wrong. Did you know that black high [...]
By karoli | Originally Published at Crooks and Liars. February 19, 2014 If you like your teachers, you can keep them...until the billionaires fix that bug in the system. Education is the playground for billionaire philanthropy, regardless of ideology. Moral conservative billionaires want it privatized so [...]
There are scars of all sorts. Each leaves a mark, but some are seen more readily. There are the less visible scars stress leaves behind. Fear of a test or failure hurts. But neither is said to cause, or indeed, to teach further aggression. Nonetheless, the "spare [...]
On Saturday, February 16, 2014 a Jacksonville, Florida jury declared it impossible to come to a unanimous decision. Michael Dunn, a forty-seven year old white man who admits to shooting Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old African American, was ultimately convicted but not on the charge of first-degree murder. [...]
