We want to believe that our children's education resides in the hands of professionals. We place our confidence in our Teachers. Paid pedagogues, we think guide policy. We might never imagine that it is we who entrust our youth to profiteers; yet when confronted with the numbers [...]
New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire. By Alison Gopnik | Originally published at Slate. March 16, 2011 Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading [...]
How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? Now that you know who you are, what do you want to be? And have you traveled very far, far as the eye can see? ~The BeatlesBaby, you might not be a rich man or woman [...]
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne knows racism when he sees it, and he isn't afraid to publicly castigate the most recent agents of race hate. Horne is an outspoken opponent of racism in a state roiling with tensions about "illegal aliens" and "anchor babies." The [...]
History offers lessons. It inspires. And it lives. — Recy Taylor (1944), Gertrude Perkins (1949), 15 year old Flossie Hardman (1951), Betty Jean Owens (1959), Joan Little (1974) #SayHerName People keep saying, 'We need to have a conversation about race'…I want to see a white man convicted [...]
Once again, Americans are up in arms or perchance, better armed and dangerous. Only little more than a week into 2011, citizens have had to confront their fears, feelings, all at gunpoint. It began on a calm, clear Saturday. In a Safeway Store Tucson parking lot Congresswoman [...]
I share a tale, or two from the 2010-2011 holiday season. For me, the stories ring true today. The topics are, teaching and reaching, learning and growing, in the holiday season.Christmas on the Corner. New Years at the Yield By Betsy L. Angert This year, Christmas and [...]
Photograph: Students at a magnet school in Chicago wait for the start of classes last year. | Scott Olson/Getty Images Originally Published at Pacific Standard: The Science of Society. November 28, 2010 5:00 AM Miller-McCune interviews two education experts about the promise and betrayal of diversity in [...]
By Shankar Vedantam | Originally Published at Slate. November 12 2010 3:04 PM If parenthood sucks, why do we love it? Because we're addicted. At the end of a long day, after a rotten commute filled with road rage and little accomplished at work, with chores piled [...]
