In this April. 1, 2011 photo, New York City fifth graders enter PS321, a public elementary school in the Brooklyn Borough of New York. New York state has the most segregated public schools in the nation, with many black and Latino students attending schools with virtually no [...]
Photographic Credit: Flickr/Judy Baxter By Jim Newell | Originally Published at Salon. May 22, 2014 During the Democrats’ productive 2010 lame-duck session of Congress, one of the major legislative items they were able to pass was the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, a.k.a. “Michelle Obama’s child nutrition bill.” [...]
We need to stop telling girls that their existence is problematic to men. Photograph: Alamy By Jessica Valenti | Originally Published at The Guardian. May 21, 2014 Dress codes assume that male students' education needs to be protected. What girls need doesn't rate Now that the [...]
AP Photograph | Carolyn Kaster By Bryce Covert Originally Published at Think Progress. May 20, 2014 AT 3:57 PM The unemployment rate for black workers has been significantly higher than for white workers since government data has been collected. But despite the fact that college graduates fare [...]
Photograph; Appalachian Children. Tumblr. By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at the Becoming Radical. May 20, 2014 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau, Walden Since October 1999, when I experienced several weeks of unrelenting panic attacks, I [...]
Photograph; Luis Mateo and Kasandra Vega, who both left high school without a degree, are involved in the culinary program of the United Teen Equality Center, in Lowell, Mass. | Evan Richman / For NBC NEWS From the moment Luis E. Mateo started high school in Lowell, [...]
By Paul Buchheit | Common Dreams. May 19, 2014 Many wealthy Americans believe that dysfunctional behavior causes poverty. Their own success, they would insist, derives from good character and a strict work ethic. But they would be missing some of the facts. Ample evidence exists to show [...]
Paul Tough's meticulous, fascinating New York Times Magazine piece ("Who Gets to Graduate?") is, in some ways, a story about signaling. What signals do students receive--not just in college but from birth--and how do those signals shape the stories they tell themselves when they run [...]
Photograph; Students walk through the Loop March 25, 2013, to protest plan to close 50 Chicago elementary schools. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesYour Take: Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, black communities are fighting a new threat that is destroying educational opportunities. By Jitu Brown [...]
