By Leslie Postal| Originally Published at Orlando Sentinel November 17, 2013 Florida's Common Core education standards make for dry reading. But they've created such a fierce political battle that when the state asked for public comments, more than 19,000 of them poured in. On Tuesday, the State [...]
Photograph; Opponents of the Common Core State Standards kept their children out of school Nov. 18 to protest what they say is a federal overreach. Might we blame a bad Common Core State Standards rollout on a website or could it be that the website rollout went [...]
By Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Professor Emerita of Early Childhood Education, Lesley University | Originally Published at AFT American Teacher Federation November 17, 2013 | Download pdf Early childhood education is “in” these days—from the bipartisan bill introduced in Congress this [...]
By Paul L. Thomas | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical November 17, 2013 Social media and even mainstream media appear poised to leap on Secretary Arne Duncan with both feet due to his swipe at white suburban moms. The nearly universal sweeping outrage—some with a level [...]
By Paul L. Thomas | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical November 15, 2013 | Graphic; AngertAesthetics In her “Diving into the Wreck,” the speaker of Adrienne Rich’s poem explains, “the sea is another story/the sea is not a question of power.” Critical response to this poem [...]
Photograph; The Franklin K. Lane Educational Campus in Brooklyn. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been an advocate for the letter grade system, which has become one of the country’s most complex. May the era of school grades begin its descent. May all those affected in New York, [...]
"I've crossed the line" seems to be this week's theme. Governor Chris Christie proudly boasts that he was able to endear himself to Democrats, Latinos, and African-American voters. The New Jersey Governor re-elect crossed-the invisible line that divides left from right. He worked to show that he [...]
Photograph Credit: Altanaka via Shutterstock.com By David Sirota | Originally Published at AlterNet. November 11, 2013 Google the phrase "education crisis" and you'll be hit with a glut of articles, blog posts and think tank reports claiming the entire American school system is facing an emergency. Much [...]
Photo: Marin Watts By Von Diaz | Originally Published at Colorlines. Monday, November 11 2013, 7:00 AM EST It’s 10 p.m. on Tuesday night at the Streetwork Project overnight shelter in New York City, and many of the young residents are just settling in. The shelter, a [...]
