Photograph; Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennet By Lauren Fitzpatrick | Originally Published at Chicago Sun-Times October 1, 2013 9:46PM Chicago Public School officials have pledged not to close any more schools because of academic or enrollment problems for at least five years — but on Tuesday [...]
Photo Credit: aastock | Shutterstock.com By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at AlterNet. | October 3, 2013 It's time for some new thinking about how to address the persistent inequalities that plague our education system. As the evidence mounts discrediting much of the movement for [...]
By Andrea Gabor Originally Published at Newsweek. September 20, 2013 Long before Sci Academy, a charter school in New Orleans, had graduated its first senior class, the school was being heaped with accolades. In September 2010, when Sci Academy was just two years old, its 200 excited [...]
By Greg Kaufmann | The Poverty Line, What Matters Today | Originally Published at BillMoyers.com September 27, 2013 We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following post appeared first in Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week [...]
On September 21, 2013 a large group of children, parents, grandparents, school staff, teachers and community members gathered to affirm Public Education as a Civil Right. Locals and supporters from miles away came together at Milwaukee High School of the Arts at 10:30 a.m. Once the crowd [...]
By Tyler Cowen Originally Published at The New York Times September 7, 2013 ONE of the most troubling features of the slow economic recovery is that it has largely bypassed young people. This doesn’t bode well for the future of the American economy. For Americans aged 16 [...]
Human mental bandwidth is finite. You’ve probably experienced this before (though maybe not in those terms): When you’re lost in concentration trying to solve a problem like a broken computer, you’re more likely to neglect other tasks, things like remembering to take the dog for a walk, [...]
Photo Credit: Getty Images For two score and ten years we have misremembered and made mythical the stories we prefer to believe. Perhaps that is why, fifty years later, there is a need to March again for Jobs and Freedom. In 1963 Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King’s [...]
Al Sharpton is one of the primary conveners of this Saturday’s march in Washington D.C. to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington. Photo: Getty Images/Andrew Burton Might it be that the divide in this country expresses itself in ways that are beyond color and class? Could it [...]
