Is public education doomed to destruction? Has it already been done in? Everyone has an opinion. The question is will the Vergara v. California court decision permanently define what might be? Will education equity be set free? Stanford Professor Linda Darling-Hammond discusses the case and examines the [...]
Photograph; The American Dream by Margaret Bourke-White By Philip Bump | Originally Published at The Wire. April 1, 2014 Americans don't want to imagine that our racist history is actually an ongoing, racist reality. We like to look at racism as a thing that has gotten better [...]
Photograph Credit Chris Hondros/Getty By Conor P. Williams | Originally Published at The Daily Beast. March 31, 2014 New York schools are the most segregated in the country according to a new study, but blaming charter schools, which only serve 6% of city students, won’t fix the [...]
Towards Achievement with Integrity By Dennis Shirley | Originally Published at Worlds of Education Volume 43 - Apr 2014 March 25, 2014 | Download [pdf] Image by World Bank Photo Collection via Flickr On the other hand, cheek by jowl with these impressive achievements, age-old [...]
Will children eat? In one-fifth of American households children are food insecure; thus, the question is pressing. Our young do not have access to food that sustains them. Nor have our nations assistance programs provided enough. And still, funds are cut, and cut, and cut. Private food [...]
Joshua Cintron, 10, prays during funeral services for his cousin, Naisha Pearson, at St. Luke's Church in the Bronx. Pearson, 10, was shot and killed by a stray bullet at a neighborhood Labor Day picnic in a Bronx park when a fight between two men erupted in [...]
Karen Pulfer Focht/The Commercial Appeal/ZUMANo, single moms aren't the problem. And neither are absentee dads. By Erika Eichelberger | Originally Published at Mother Jones.March/April 2014 Issue 1. Single moms are the problem. Only 9 percent of low-income, urban moms have been single throughout their child's first five [...]
(Photo: Franco Folini / Flickr) By Christian Exoo and Calvin F. Exoo | Originally Published at Truthout. | Truthout | Op-Ed February 22, 2014 09:19 Talking about poverty and inequality is all the rage these days. President Obama wants to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. February 13, 2014 The snow started in South Carolina on Tuesday, February 11, 2014, and when I woke up Thursday, February 13, the snow continued, laying down a powdery blanket on the ice crust formed [...]
