Photograph; Shoppers at a food pantry. (Reuters) And why their "bad" decisions might be more rational than you'd think. By Derek Thompson | Originally Published at The Atlantic. November 22, 2013 In August, Science published a landmark study concluding that poverty, itself, hurts our ability to make [...]
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Originally Published at Bill Moyers and Company. November 22, 2013 Education expert Henry Giroux tells Bill public schools are suffering from an overemphasis on academic testing as teachers are stripped of their powers, in schools with disciplinary systems that resemble prisons. “The discipline, particularly in these urban [...]
By Eric Westervelt | Originally Published at National Public Radio. November 21, 2013 5:15 PM | Listen to the story Photograph; Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican, cut more than $1 billion from the state's K-12 budget, which hit the state-controlled Philadelphia district hardest. This is the [...]
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee |Originally Published at ThinkProgress. November 21, 2013 On Wednesday, actress America Ferrera led a solidarity march with hundreds of pro-immigration activist groups at the University of Texas at Austin to protest against a scheduled game called “Catch an illegal immigrant” which prompted heavy [...]
Did you see or hear about the Taos chase? What do you know? Could it be that we know less than we think we do? Might we consider this…On November 20, 2013, President Obama, awarded the Medal of Freedom [Video] to sixteen [16] individuals. Most news reports [...]
By Félix Pérez and Dan Davis/image by Dorothea Lange | Originally Published at Education votes. November 20, 2013 As cold winter weather takes hold for the next four months in many parts of the country, a record number of students face a stress-filled future as they and [...]
By Gina Crosley-Corcoran, CD(DONA), MPH(c) | Originally Published at The Feminist Breeder. November 20, 2013 | Photograph; ("This was a much nicer camper setup than the one we had.") Years ago, some feminist on the internet told me I was "Privileged." THE FUCK!?!?" I said. I came [...]
Crisis Discourse, Utopian Expectations, and Accountability Failures By Paul L. Thomas | Furman University | Originally Published at Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 4(1) 2011 "It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. . . . [T]he slovenliness of our [...]
By Paul Buchheit | Originally Published at Salon | This article originally appeared on AlterNet November 19, 2013 Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast called the public school system a “socialist regime.” Michelle Rhee cautions us against commending students for their ‘participation’ in sports and other activities. Privatizers [...]
