A recent study adds to the mounting pile of evidence that a child's early years are critical for determining later academic success. Poor kids are falling far behind. AP Images/Lynn Hermosa By Monica Potts | Originally Published at The American Prospect. February 12, 2014 Most Americans think [...]
Flickr image cc by Phil Roeder By John O'connor | Originally Published at Florida State Impact, National Public Radio. February 10, 2014 7:54 AM Chris Guerrieri is a Jacksonville art teacher who also blogs about education. Last month he sent us an email about Florida’s Common Core [...]
Teacher Linda Robinson works on algebra with students, left, Alicia Varney and Savannah Reed, both 16, at Union County’s Porter Ridge High, one of the schools that logged a strong performance on new state ratings of teacher effectiveness. Davie Hinshaw — dhinshaw@charlotteobserver.com Introductory Essay By Betsy L. [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. January 28, 2014 at 7:00 pm Everyone loves “choice,” right? In a country where in a single year there are more than 100 new choices for what to use to brush your teeth, it stands to reason [...]
By Les Leopold | Originally Published at AlterNet. Update at Huffington Post. November 8, 2013 5:59 AM EST Updated: January 23, 2014 6:58 PM EST There are 16.4 million American children living in poverty. That's nearly one quarter (22.6 percent) of all of our children. [...]
Early one Saturday morning I found my landlady standing in front of our building, staring at the wall, with a bottle of bleach and a pair of rubber gloves. “What are you working on?” I asked, with a forced cheeriness that comes from being a little [...]
Photograph; New York Times | Mapping Poverty in America By John Light | Originally Published at Bill Moyers HQ. January 7, 2014 Where can you find concentrated poverty in America? The New York Times put together an interactive map which reveals that almost all American cities have [...]
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 [...]
Photograph; The study shows that by age 4, children in families living with incomes under 200 percent of the federal poverty line have less gray matter — brain tissue critical for processing of information and execution of actions — than kids growing up in families with higher [...]
