By Valerie Strauss | Originally Published at The Washington Post. Updated: December 12 at 5:00 am Education reform policy around the country is increasingly being made in secret or without public input — and with a lot of private philanthropic money. A number of recent stories reveal [...]
Photograph; The study shows that by age 4, children in families living with incomes under 200 percent of the federal poverty line have less gray matter — brain tissue critical for processing of information and execution of actions — than kids growing up in families with higher [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Campaign For America's future. December 11, 2013 “We have to fight for our children’s education.” Those words, from Philadelphia parent Kia Hinton, crystallized a national sentiment expressed during a Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education held [...]
Photograph; Mayor Rahm Emanuel convinced his allies to block a vote on sending more TIF funds back to the schools. Alex Wroblewski/Sun-Times Media Democracy is but a dream that has not come true. In 2013, we move further from freedom at an unprecedented and perilous speed. This [...]
Photograph; A Silicon Valley company co-founded by a Stanford artificial-intelligence professor, Sebastian Thrun, and San Jose State University were part of an experiment on massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that turned into a flop. Massive Open Online Courses, often described as MOOC are not merely a [...]
Irene Robinson stands outside Overton Elementary School on the South Side of Chicago on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. Robinson, who attended this school as a child, is upset that the school was among 47 public schools that closed in the city in June. Her grandchildren attended the [...]
Teachers across Onondaga County wore blue today as part of a National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education. Van Duyn Elementary students, from left to right, Harmony Allison-Lemon, a kindergartener, Edith Hill, a first grader, Elijah Wright, a second grader, and Janae Robinson, [...]
Please ponder the possibility that not all possessions are tangible. We might have the best grade, the perceived better degree, more Facebook friends or Twitter followers, greater fame or fortune. Even an abundance of good favor can be acquired, and viewed as a commodity. Each has worth [...]
Photograph; Teachers need to be careful about which students they steer toward vocational school. AP Photo/Brendan Hoffman By Angela Romans | Originally Published at Quartz. December 9, 2013 My brother, a businessman who went to Brown and MIT, and I have a running dinnertime argument. It goes [...]
