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Parents Withdraw Students from New Orleans East School Amid Protests

Group aims to start its own school Photograph; Video Capture WDSU Television. To View Video. CONCERNED COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO TOOK A STAND TODAY AGAINST WHAT THEY CALL THE "PRISON-LIKE DISCIPLINARY CODE" AT A LOCAL SCHOOL. AS AN ACT OF PROTEST, SOME PARENTS ARE REMOVING THEIR [...]

Parents Withdraw Students from New Orleans East School Amid Protests2016-11-29T17:38:24-05:00

Florida School Named After KKK Leader to Change Title

Photograph; The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, is known for its violent past and white-hooded costume "The more things change the more they stay the same." "The times, they are a changin'." Will we? Florida school named after KKK leader to change [...]

Florida School Named After KKK Leader to Change Title2016-11-29T17:38:24-05:00

Poverty Influences Children’s Early Brain Development

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 [...]

Poverty Influences Children’s Early Brain Development2016-11-29T17:38:27-05:00

A Parent Reclaims the Promise on the National Day of Action

Irene Robinson stands outside Overton Elementary School on the South Side of Chicago on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. Robinson, who attended this school as a child, is upset that the school was among 47 public schools that closed in the city in June. Her grandchildren attended the [...]

A Parent Reclaims the Promise on the National Day of Action2016-11-29T17:38:27-05:00

Talking Race With a Toddler Who Wasn’t Talking About Race at All

KJ Dell’Antonia By Tamika Thompson | Originally Published at The New York Times. December 6, 2013 Recently, my 27-month-old daughter, Morgan, asked this: “Mommy, can you hand me the black one?” Sitting with her on the living-room rug amid a mess of plastic building bricks, I realized [...]

Talking Race With a Toddler Who Wasn’t Talking About Race at All2016-11-29T17:38:28-05:00

End Zero-Tolerance Policies: A Reader

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 [...]

End Zero-Tolerance Policies: A Reader2013-12-03T17:57:47-05:00

Seeing the Toll, Schools Revise Zero Tolerance

By Lizette Alvarez | Originally Published at The New York Times. December 2, 2013 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Faced with mounting evidence that get-tough policies in schools are leading to arrest records, low academic achievement and high dropout rates that especially affect minority students, cities and school [...]

Seeing the Toll, Schools Revise Zero Tolerance2016-11-29T17:38:29-05:00

Test for the Links Between Education, Marriage and Parenting

We test and test our children in a futile attempt to alter reality. We wish to believe that scores on a battery of examinations will predict the future, or at least offer some insight into a student's progress. Policymakers suggest the tests will forecast a child's potential. [...]

Test for the Links Between Education, Marriage and Parenting2016-11-29T17:38:29-05:00

Misreading “Grit”: On Treating Children Better than Salmon or Sea Turtles

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 [...]

Misreading “Grit”: On Treating Children Better than Salmon or Sea Turtles2016-11-29T17:38:29-05:00
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