By Teresa Watanabe | Originally Published at The Los Angeles Times. December 9, 2013 District officials say having to annually verify students' family income to qualify for extra state dollars costs time and money. Major California school districts fear they will be shortchanged millions of dollars [...]
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. November 26, 2013 Rob McEntarffer (@rmcenta) Tweeted a question to me about my blog post, The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievement, asking: “can Grit research (Duckworth, etc) be used as a humanizing/empowering tool, rather [...]
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 [...]
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 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
