By Liana Silva-Ford | Originally Chronicle Vitae. August 12, 2014 In May the Center for American Progress released a report on diversity in K-12 classrooms across the United States. According to the study, the racial and ethnic makeup of public schools just isn’t reflected in the teachers [...]
What are we doing to our children? Why might it be that white teens are free to plan for proms, High School graduation, the anticipation that comes when you go off to college, while our Black babies ponder, "If the cops gun me down, which image would [...]
Lesley McSpadden, left, is comforted by her husband, Louis Head, after her 18-year-old son, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by police in the middle of the street in Ferguson, Mo., near St. Louis on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. A spokesman with the St. Louis County Police [...]
Illustration by Mike Keefe | Cagle Cartoons By Jason Stanford | Originally Published at Cagle Cartoons Newspaper. August 11, 2014 The problem with a lie—even one that everyone agrees with—is that eventually you can’t ignore the truth. Enron can’t paper over debt and crashes. The housing bubble [...]
By Nell Bernstein | Originally Published at Open Society. August 8, 2014 | Photographic Credit; Rolando prays alone in his cell. The 15-year-old was given 24 hours of cell confinement as punishment for "failure to comply"—in this case for disobeying staff orders to make his bed in [...]
By Bree Ervin @thinkbanned | Originally Published at Think Banned Thoughts. August 7, 2014 · 1:09 PM | Photograph Source YWCA/ Just a quickie before I dash out the door - I’m on my way to an interview that has me thinking about violence – a [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. August 6, 2014 The New York Times headline suggests we are finally poised to read a positive story about education: A Summer of Extra Reading and Hope for Fourth Grade. But education reporter Motoko Rich’s [...]
By Laurie Levy | AlterNet. August 6, 2014 Kindergarten was once about play and experimentation. Why can't it be that way again? My grandson, like millions of other five- and six-year-olds across the country, is about to start his formal education in kindergarten. Like most kids, he’s [...]
Photograph; Young men listen intently as President Barack Obama speaks about the "My Brother’s Keeper" initiative, at the Walker Jones Education Campus in Washington, Monday, July 21, 2014. | SOURCE: AP/J. Scott Applewhite By Signithia Fordham | Originally Published at Center For American Progress. August 6, 2014 [...]
