Photograph Credit; Mario Tama / Getty Images By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Campaign For America's Future. August 28, 2014 This time of year, while classroom teachers and administrators in public schools are busy welcoming students back to a new school year and figuring out how [...]
Chicago’s ‘murder capital’ rep stretches the truth. By Salim Muwakkil | Originally Published at In These Times. August 28, 2014 | During a memorial service on July 20 in Chicago, Audry Miller mourns granddaughter Shamiya Adams, 11, who was killed by a stray bullet. (Photo by Scott [...]
By Michael Skolnik | Originally Published at Global Grind . August 20, 2014 | Michael Brown | Facebook I’ve never been pulled over by the cops when I hadn’t done anything wrong. I’ve never been asked for identification for no apparent reason. I’ve never been stopped and [...]
A teacher appreciation week banner from August 2005 remained in the library at George Washington Carver High School when it was photographed 14 months later. (The Times-Picayune archive) By Sue Sturgis | Originally Published at Facing South. August 27, 2014 3:18 PM When Hurricane Katrina struck the [...]
Remember when the National Governors Association told us that Common Core was our friend? It was not that long ago. The year was 2010. Way back then a states-led effort to develop the Common Core State Standards was adopted. For near a year, state leaders, including governors [...]
Photographic Credit: Photo Credit: wavebreakmedia } Shutterstock.com By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at AlterNet. August 26, 2014 Prohibiting students from talking about events in Ferguson offers them exactly the opposite of what they need. When faced with tragedies like the shooting of Michael [...]
I never thought that my brother would be one of those police officers. He was supposed to be different because of me My white brother loved black people more than I did when we were growing up. As a black interracial child of the south [...]
By Brett Dickerson | Originally Published at Life At The Intersections. August 25, 2014 | Eight in 10 pupils in New Orleans attend charter schools, which are non-unionised and operate largely independently. Photograph: Julie Dermansky for the Guardian Julie Dermansky/Guardian It’s now clear that not everyone in [...]
A child buys tickets at the Halloween-Día de los Muertos fundraiser for Junipero Serra Elementary in Bernal Heights. The event netted $3,000 for the PTA. Photo by Tearsa Joy Hammock / San Francisco Public Press By Robert Reich | Robert Reich. Monday, August 25, 2014 American kids [...]
