Photo Credit: Brad Jonas -- NSFW Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org) | Originally Published in Not Safe for Work Corporation (1) April 26, 2013/ By Yasha Levine (2) | This article first appeared at Not Safe for Work Corporation (3). As you read please consider how you have [...]
"Stay in School." "An education will serve you well." These are the words of a Mom, Dad, or Guardian who cares and perhaps, has yet to achieve their dream. Persons who did as is customarily done, echo the same. However, there are hints evident in their faces [...]
By Shankar Vedantam | National Public Radio. April 22, 2013 | To Listen to the Broadcast Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji was once approached by a reporter for an interview. When Banaji heard the name of the magazine the reporter was writing for, she declined the interview: She [...]
RNC To Discuss Growing Opposition To Controversial Common Core Curriculum Originally Published at The Illinois Review April 11, 2013 Los Angeles - The concerns about the federal Common Core curriculum and the national standards it would impose on local schools reached the level of the Republican National [...]
Is there a “corporate education reform” movement? Whether we identify ourselves as a Tea Partier or a Wall Street Occupier we would likely say yes. Does that mean that all "education reformers" are corporateers or that all education reform measures are corporate in intent? That question invites [...]
By Tom Arcaro | Originally Published at Richmond Times Dispatch. April 7, 2013 12:00 AM “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render them safe, their minds must be improved to [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at the Becoming Radical. March 31, 2013 Writing in Newsweek (1980, January 21) in the cusp of America’s shift into the Reagan era of conservatism that included the roots of the current education reform movement built on accountability, standards, [...]
Working Together For Effective Reform In America's Public Schools Mostly we hear bickering; we play the blame game. In education, the topic thought to be the great uniter we see divisiveness more than we might imagine. The "Right" and "Left" split along party lines while each [...]
Photograph; Parents who lost children to gun violence gather at Chicago police headquarters to demand that Chicago police detectives solve their cases. [Photo by Carlos Javier Ortiz / Wonderful Machine] Have you ever witnessed a disaster? Where you troubled, shaken to your core, reminded of the need [...]
