By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 15, 2014 For almost thirty years, I have been a serious recreational and competitive cyclist. Despite my goals as a cyclist focusing primarily on endurance events—such as English centuries (100 miles) over mountain courses [...]
By Peniel E. Joseph | Originally Published at TheRoot| January 15, 2014 | The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial | Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images Today, on what should have been Martin Luther King Jr.’s 85th birthday, it’s time to reflect on his legacy and reimagine the significance [...]
In every child's life there is a parent and for most school age children, a Principal. Being either is significant. While styles may be different there is a need to be consistent. A child is more likely to stumble and fall if the ground beneath [...]
By | Originally Published at Education Justice. January 14, 2014 Nearly two years since the Newark Public Schools (NPS) agreed to a court-ordered Settlement to improve the delivery of special education services, the latest compliance report filed by NPS shows little progress in meeting deadlines for serving [...]
Early one Saturday morning I found my landlady standing in front of our building, staring at the wall, with a bottle of bleach and a pair of rubber gloves. “What are you working on?” I asked, with a forced cheeriness that comes from being a little [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 14, 2014 At mid-nineteenth century, public schools were under attack by the Catholic church; Bishop John Hughes “described the public schools as a ‘dragon…devouring the hope of the country as well as religion’” (Jacoby, [...]
Happy New Year! Happy Birthday! Happy Holidays! Happy. Happy. Happy. We say it proud. We sing it loud, Don't Worry Be Happy! Wherever you go, whatever you do, people wish you the best, and apparently that is happiness. But what is happiness and where do we [...]
Photograph; Students at a charter school in Washington, D.C., in 2012.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images By Amy B. Dean | Originally Published at Al Jazeera. January 13, 2014 Immigrant children deserve excellent schooling too Public schools have historically been key institutions in our nation of immigrants. [...]
Photograph; Sam Greene | Dispatch | The school on S. 6th Street is one of four Olympus schools shuttered. Felony theft, filth, and failure to meet payroll, and still, the public funds keep coming. A sponsorship is all you need and regardless of your record you too [...]
