Recovery School District Superintendent Patrick Dobard talks to students at James Weldon Johnson Elementary School in New Orleans in 2012. That school is now closed. Dobard announced Thursday that the system will close its final traditional schools in June 2014, making it the first all-charter district. (Catherine [...]
Way back when, in the stone-age of education, ability grouping and tracking were popular. Some might argue that even when it was out it was in, dependent on where you lived. Nonetheless, it existed and/or exists. When the practice is present the torch of proficiency is the [...]
Photograph; Newark Schools Superintendent Cami Anderson, right, meets with Dashonnah Gittens, left, and fellow junior Armani Stevenson at an event last fall. (Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger) One more community is torn asunder. The Newark New Jersey School District was not the first; nor will it be the last [...]
Words wield as weapons. Attitudes are our stronger armaments. Our beliefs are the bombs that brutalize a nation for generations. Poverty, we say is the greatest petard. Perhaps poverty is but a symptom of the greater scourge – our way of thinking. It is our point of [...]
Group aims to start its own school Photograph; Video Capture WDSU Television. To View Video. CONCERNED COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO TOOK A STAND TODAY AGAINST WHAT THEY CALL THE "PRISON-LIKE DISCIPLINARY CODE" AT A LOCAL SCHOOL. AS AN ACT OF PROTEST, SOME PARENTS ARE REMOVING THEIR [...]
Photograph; The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, is known for its violent past and white-hooded costume "The more things change the more they stay the same." "The times, they are a changin'." Will we? Florida school named after KKK leader to change [...]
The lens of ADHD has changed our perceptions of ourselves and our children. By Jessica Grogan, Ph.D. | Originally Published at Encountering America. Psychology Today. December 17, 2013 Since 1990, the number of American children on medication for ADHD has risen precipitously (from 600,000 to 3.5 million) [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 17, 2013 Rep. Andy Patrick, R-Hilton Head Island (SC), has made two flawed claims recently, one about leadership and another about teacher evaluation (“S.C. lawmaker proposes teacher evaluation plan,” Charleston Post and Courier, December [...]
Photograph; Katherine Myers, founder of the Great Lakes Academy Charter School, said community feedback in the South Shore neighborhood showed a strong support for the school. Say that community schools are under-utilized. Close those neighborhood schools. Insist the children walk for miles on unsafe streets or travel [...]
