Photograph; Lafayette Academy, the experience of a charter group with the profit-making company it hired to manage instruction offers a cautionary tale of how well-meaning trustees can easily stumble, and of how privatizing management is often far from a panacea | Tim Mueller for The New York [...]
By Reilly Morse | Originally Published at American Prospect. July 3, 2014 Photograph; Student civil rights activists join hands and sing as they prepare to leave Ohio to register black voters in Mississippi. The 1964 voter registration campaign was known as Freedom Summer. [Credit: PRNewsFoto/Newseum, Ted Polumbaum [...]
The Limits of Reading Rainbow By Adrienne Raphel | Originally Published at The New Yorker. July 2, 2014 On May 28th, the people behind Reading Rainbow launched a Kickstarter campaign to “Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere.” They gave themselves thirty-five days to [...]
Illustration; Shutterstock By Yong Zhao | Originally Published at Zhao Learning.. July 2, 2014 Last year when my son graduated from college, I asked the question “can you stay out of my basement?” as I believe an important outcome of education is the ability to live out [...]
By Candice Bernd | Originally Published at Truthout July 2, 2014 10:12 | Photographic Credit; Yuri Arcurs (Shutterstock) Nicole Smith is terrified that her rapist, a former police officer, is up for parole soon and could be released from prison, possibly as early as September 2015. Smith's [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. July 2, 2014 at 5:51 PMThe Cost of Leaving Educators Off The Education Agenda This act is wearing thin. As implementations of Common Core State Standards falter around the country, supporters of the new academic benchmarks [...]
Parents, pundits and politicians, did you get what you expected? If you thought you would get the biggest bang for the buck by pouring taxpayer dollars into charter schools and devoting yourself to public school disinvestment might it be time for a reassessment? After years of being [...]
Photograph; A group of students outside of Normandy High School just moments after the bell rang at the end of school in Wellston, St. Louis County, Mo. Photo by Trymaine Lee for MSNBC By Trymaine Lee | Originally Published at MSNBC. July 1, 2014 The author is [...]
Dear Dr. Kovacs, It’s nice to “meet” you! I cannot wait to have your son in my class this year. There is no need for you to apologize for being “that” parent. I will take an engaged, interested, hands-on parent over a “no show” any [...]
