Padded Cells, Corruption, Lousy Instruction And Worse ResultsCharter schools are sold as an answer. With awful discipline and shocking scandals, many really cause new problems By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Salon. January 10, 2014 | (Photograph Credit; RonTech2000 via iStock) Imagine your 5-year-old boy went [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 8, 2014 The new Common Core and related tests are likely to continue a three-decade pattern of traditional schooling either integrating the new standards and tests into the existing structure of schools or using [...]
Illustration By David Biskup. New York Times Once upon a time every state in the Union, unequivocally guaranteed a free public education in its Constitution, but that soon may end. Within the month we will know more. The Kansas Supreme Court is expected to decide what Governors [...]
Photograph; A homeless African-American man in Southern California isolated on white. [Copyright: Russell Shively] Cower in the corner. Worry and walk on eggshells. Look behind you. Be alert. There are certain standards that you need to comply with…Do not flirt with possibilities or ever fail. Most every [...]
Photograph; New York Times | Mapping Poverty in America By John Light | Originally Published at Bill Moyers HQ. January 7, 2014 Where can you find concentrated poverty in America? The New York Times put together an interactive map which reveals that almost all American cities have [...]
Photograph; Sonia Wang, a founding member of the prospective Be the Change Charter School, said some local parents support the school's bid to open in Bridgeport. [Facebook/Be the Change] "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." It happens without a word. [...]
Mister President, we thank you for addressing the need to expand college opportunities. As you noted, currently, inequity and inequality are replete. "[T]he United States still has a long way to go to open the door to college for low-income Americans….We have to make sure there are [...]
Photograph; Graduating students at commencement ceremony at Ohio State University on May 5, 2013.The Right wants us to think higher education has no value. By Susan J. Douglas | Originally Published at In These Times. January 3, 2014 Among the many visionary goals of our nation’s right [...]
Advocate staff photo by Richard Alan Hannon -- BESE board member Lottie Beebe, left, talks with Ann .Burruss, a parent and Swamp BESE co-founder By Marsha Sills msills@theadvocate.com | Originally Published at The Advocate. January 03, 2014 LAFAYETTE — Two Lafayette Parish public-school parents, who fought last [...]
