Photograph; Chris Harris captures the moment Nelson Mandela is released after serving 27 years in prison | Times/Chris Harris By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 5, 2013 Early in February 1990, my daughter, born March 11, 1989, spent an entire [...]
The State Policy Network has an annual warchest of $83m drawn from major donors like David Koch, above, and food giant Kraft. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP By Ed Pilkington in New York and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington | Originally Published at The Guardian. Thursday 5 December 2013 13.21 [...]
By Anna Simonton | Originally Published at Salon. December 5, 2013 | This article originally appeared on AlterNet. It has been corrected since it first published. Why are finance types investing in local school board elections? Just follow the money Given that Arthur Rock has a [...]
By Paul L. Thomas | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 4, 2013, 2013 Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, I taught English in the rural South Carolina high school I attended as a student. Many of those years, I taught Advanced Placement courses as part of [...]
Spending is an interesting subject. More often than not talk of the topic causes great strife. Marriages end over money. Friendships fracture too. Political parties part ways when the dollars are debated. At the same time, Conservatives, Liberals, and Independents agree; Education is our nation's priority. We [...]
By Fred Dews | Originally Published at Brookings Institute. December 3, 2013 Rankings for the OECD's 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment were released today, showing once again that Asian countries topped the charts while American 15-year-olds scored in the middle on the international tests of math, [...]
By Paul L. Tomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 3, 2013 What do zero-tolerance policies, “no excuses” practices, and grade retention have in common? They all negatively and disproportionately impact children from poverty, minority children, English language learners, and boys; and nearly as [...]
By Paul L. Thomas | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 3, 2013, 2013 We have two recent commentaries that detail how schools and teachers fail students in the teaching of writing—one comes from a college student and the other, from a former teacher. While both [...]
By Ted Cox @tedcoxchicago | Originally Published at DNAinfo Chicago. on December 3, 2013 5:56pm Ald. John Arena says there's an organized strategy to keep his proposed referendum on an elected school board off the March primary ballot. DNAinfo/Ted Cox CITY HALL — A [...]
