(Photograph Credit; .sho ck via Shutterstock) By Dan Arel | Alternet. March 24, 2014 Two new Republican proposals could be a boon for the prospects of publicly funded religious education. It is no secret that Republicans dislike public education. They view it as a burden on [...]
Kindergarten students in Kansas City, Kan., run during a physical education class at Frank Rushton Elementary School, which has a high percentage of poor and at-risk children. (John Hanna / Associated Press / January 9, 2014) Disparities in the public funding of school districts violate the state [...]
Photograph; She's smiling because she knows taking the test may very well be easier than opting out. |Photo by iStock/Thinkstock By Lisa T. McElroy | Originally Published at Slate. March 6, 2014 Then I learned a thing or two. Deciding to opt my two daughters out [...]
Photograph by Angel Franco/The New York Times By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. March 6 , 2014 In the often cited scene near the end of Notting Hill when Anna Scott stands in William Thacker’s shabby book store and asks him [...]
By Kate Taylor | Originally Published at The New York Times. March 6, 2014 Battered in the press over his position on charter schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday took to a friendly news outlet to defend himself and argue that his actions were being distorted. [...]
[Image adapted from Anosmia on flickr] By David Sirota | Originally Published at Pandodaily. March 6, 2014 Charter schools have long been loved by the private sector, and the rich. And for good reason. They are technically public schools, and so they receive lots of public money, [...]
Eva S. Moskowitz, left, founder of Success Academy Charter Schools, led a rally Tuesday in Albany, while Mayor Bill de Blasio, who differs with her, led a separate demonstration. | Credit Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times It is not a battle of the Titans, but [...]
Image: Racial Stereotypes retrieved from tumblr By Esther Quintero | Originally Published at Shaker Blog. April 4, 2014 This is the first in a series of three posts about implicit bias. Here are the second and third parts. The research on implicit bias both fascinates and disturbs [...]
Joshua Cintron, 10, prays during funeral services for his cousin, Naisha Pearson, at St. Luke's Church in the Bronx. Pearson, 10, was shot and killed by a stray bullet at a neighborhood Labor Day picnic in a Bronx park when a fight between two men erupted in [...]
