Cindy Jordan, right, mother of two students at Granada Elementary Community Charter in Granada Hills, joins about 50 parents protesting an L.A. Unified order to reorganize classes according to students' levels of English fluency. The move has sparked a storm of protests across the district. (Al Seib, [...]
Using poverty alone to explain the achievement gap may do more harm than good. By Richard Rothstein | Originally Published at The Economic Policy Institute [EPI]. October 10, 2013 On her “Bridging Differences” blog, educator Deborah Meier began a discussion with Mike Petrilli of the [...]
Cesar Chavez Elementary students play capture the flag at recess. (Los Angeles Times | April 16, 2012) By Robert Ross | Originally Published at The Los Angeles Times. October 17, 2013 Imagine that you walk into the newborn nursery ward at an American hospital and you see [...]
Photograph; In this file photo taken Monday, Oct. 25, 2010, Joseph Erb, helps out students Cambria Bird, left, and Lauren Grayson, right, in the fifth grade class of the Cherokee Nation Immersion School in Tahlequah, Okla. | AP As the public at-large expresses their distress for what [...]
Graphic; Low-income students made up at least half the public school student population in 17 states in 2011, a marked increase from 2000, when four states topped 50 percent. By Lyndsey Layton | Originally Published at The Washington Post. October 16 E-mail the writer A majority of [...]
The study is cited then censured. People pay more to live in an area with "good" schools. Might this be conventional wisdom or could it be that the statement evokes thoughts of discrimination? To state that there is a divide could be considered blasphemy. In America? We [...]
Students cross 25th Street at South Central Park Avenue as police and a Safe Passage guard keep watch. (John J. Kim, Chicago Tribune) You can lead a child to a welcoming school, but you cannot make him or her drink from waters that feel dangerous. No. A [...]
Gentrification is the predominant form of neighborhood development in many cities. | Photograph: Bill Cooper By David Madden | Originally Published at Guardian. Thursday 10 October 2013 07.30 EDT It's no secret that today's big cities are massively unequal, and gentrification is now the predominant form of [...]
By Lorraine Forte | Originally Published at The Huffington Post October 9, 2013 Any adult who was successful in school will likely remember that their parents played a defining role in that success. What happens during the roughly six-hour school day is only part of the learning [...]
