Photograph; Steve Johnson, an Amundsen High School Local School Council member, recommends that the council craft a letter opposing CPS budget cuts. | DNAInfo/Patty West Beginning April 7th parents once again will take action. Some will vote and countless of these will be on the ballot. Those [...]
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo spoke at a rally in support of charter schools on the steps outside the State Capitol in Albany last month. | Credit Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times By Javier C. Hernández and Susanne Craig | Originally Published at The New York [...]
By Paul L. Thonas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. April 2, 2014 children guessed (but only a few) and down they forgot as up they grew “[anyone lived in a pretty how town],” e.e. cummings In one of those early years of becoming and [...]
Is public education doomed to destruction? Has it already been done in? Everyone has an opinion. The question is will the Vergara v. California court decision permanently define what might be? Will education equity be set free? Stanford Professor Linda Darling-Hammond discusses the case and examines the [...]
By Katrina Schwartz | Originally Published at MindShift. April 2, 2014 The focus on scoring well on standardized tests has wedged educators into a difficult spot. Teachers are concerned that a poor showing on the tests will jeopardize school funding, or even their jobs, and often feel [...]
By Kevin Drum | Originally Published at Mother Jones. April 2, 2014 Vikram Bath takes on the cult of Finland today. What's that? You didn't realize Finland had a cult? Well, it does in the education community, where Finland's consistently high scores on the international PISA test [...]
Photograph; The American Dream by Margaret Bourke-White By Philip Bump | Originally Published at The Wire. April 1, 2014 Americans don't want to imagine that our racist history is actually an ongoing, racist reality. We like to look at racism as a thing that has gotten better [...]
Photograph Credit Chris Hondros/Getty By Conor P. Williams | Originally Published at The Daily Beast. March 31, 2014 New York schools are the most segregated in the country according to a new study, but blaming charter schools, which only serve 6% of city students, won’t fix the [...]
Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Published at EmpathyEducates. March 31, 2014 In New Jersey, the Governor spends one million in taxpayer dollars for "full vindication;" yet there is nothing for education. In Kansas, legislators debate whether a teacher can spank, but as far as the [...]
