Photograph; The wooden paddle sits on the principal's desk at Sneads High School in Jackson County, Florida. In 2009, Florida embraced a rigorous policy – Corporal punishment is good; it keeps young children in school and far from the juvenile justice system. "This legislation [SB 1540 pdf] [...]
Photograph; Q99.info By Liz Dwyer | Originally Published at Good. February 29, 2012 In a bold comparative analysis of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Jada Williams, a 13-year old eighth grader at School #3 in Rochester, New York, asserted that in her experience, today's [...]
In American society, we can't avoid the fact that socioeconomic disparities are racial disparities By Joe Pettit | Originally Published at The Baltimore Sun. February 22, 2012 | Photographic Credit; Chris Ryan/Getty Images Imagine a report that reached the following three conclusions: In Maryland, 35 percent [...]
By Christopher Bonastia | Originally Published at Huffington Post. January 11, 2012 12:56 PM EST | Photographic Credit; Black Educator When I tell people here in New York City -- friends, students, acquaintances, strangers who sit next to me on the train and cabdrivers who don't slide [...]
How we remember the history of school segregation can be a mystery. What we do and have done to change our history – that is the greater mystery. By Christopher Bonastia| Originally Published at Huffington Post Black Voices. January 11, 2012 When I tell people here in [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Our Future. January 6, 2012 I remember the day that the poor kids showed up at our school. It was in 1964. Classes had already started, and I was in second grade, surrounded by my familiar friends from my mostly [...]
Often we know well what is. We experience the trials and tribulations that today, we call education reform. But how did we get here? What was it that occurred? Let us look at our history.Los Angeles: The Proving Ground of Education Reform By Catherine Cloutier | Originally [...]
By Catherine Cloutier | Originally Published at News 21. USC Annenberg. School of Communication and Journalism | Interact with the Shadow Secretaries of Education Click for Interactive Image When Microsoft magnate Bill Gates decided a decade ago that the “solution” to what he [...]
By Lee Fang | Originally Published at The Nation. November 16, 2011Under the banner of high-tech progress, corporate lobbyists have rammed through legislation privatizing K-12 education across the country. This article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. If the national movement [...]
