By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. October 17, 2014 at 7:49 am | Illustration Credit; The Blind Elephant Collective Jessica Tobin Sometimes when you get enough people beating on the outside of a building, those sitting comfortably on the inside start to feel [...]
By Les Leopold | Originally Published at AlterNet. September 30, 2014 We're number one? Hardly. A recent international report demolishes several deeply held myths about our educational system. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report, which compares the educational systems of over 30 developed [...]
We defer to cops even when they kill, and scapegoat schools for the ills America has given up on. This must change By Paul Rosenberg | Originally Published at Salon. September 10, 2014 | Matt Damon as Colin Sullivan in "The Departed" (Credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment Incorporated) [...]
Photograph Credit; The Times Daily, Jim Hannon By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. September 9, 2014 In my undergraduate introductory education course, I read aloud the first or second class Sandra Cisneros’s “Eleven.” The central character is Rachel, and the setting [...]
A teacher appreciation week banner from August 2005 remained in the library at George Washington Carver High School when it was photographed 14 months later. (The Times-Picayune archive) By Sue Sturgis | Originally Published at Facing South. August 27, 2014 3:18 PM When Hurricane Katrina struck the [...]
Opportunity Charter School, with 44 percent teacher attrition in 2011-12, actually saw lower turnover than 18 other city charter schools—at least according to state data, which some schools dispute. | Photographic Credit; di Talwar/City Limits By Helen Zelon | Originally Published at City Limits. Wednesday, August 20, [...]
By Liana Silva-Ford | Originally Chronicle Vitae. August 12, 2014 In May the Center for American Progress released a report on diversity in K-12 classrooms across the United States. According to the study, the racial and ethnic makeup of public schools just isn’t reflected in the teachers [...]
Photograph; Young men listen intently as President Barack Obama speaks about the "My Brother’s Keeper" initiative, at the Walker Jones Education Campus in Washington, Monday, July 21, 2014. | SOURCE: AP/J. Scott Applewhite By Signithia Fordham | Originally Published at Center For American Progress. August 6, 2014 [...]
