Editorials
Learn About Tableau Stop and Frisk; The Statistics Speak The Center for Constitutional Rights has long examined the data on Stop and Frisk. The statistics are startling and perhaps worth a review. The New York Civil Liberties Union also invites [...]
Review of Report Card on American Education. National Education Policy Center Download Report: Review of Report Card on American Education Contact: Christopher Lubienski, Jameson Brewer May 9, 2013 Press Release Media Citations Report Card on American Education: Ranking State K-12 Performance, Progress, and Reform By Matthew Ladner [...]
By Alex Molnar, Gary Miron, Luis Huerta, Jennifer King Rice, Larry Cuban, Brian Horvitz, Charisse Gulosino, Sheryl Rankin Shafer | Originally Published at >The National Education Policy Center May 2, 2013 Press Release: Abstract: This national study, which comprehensively reviews 311 virtual schools operating in the United [...]
Originally Published at National Association for Multicultural Education February 1, 2003 Numerous definitions of multicultural education have been proposed or espoused by scholars, researchers and organizations over the past 30 years. To assist researchers, teachers, educators, and parents in understanding and implementing multicultural education, the National Association [...]
Inquiry; Critical Thought is the catalyst for all newer ideas. Each and every innovation is borne out of inspiration, which is informed by asking. We might ask another or probe our own minds. Either way, inquiry begins an investigation. We gather facts, figures, and formulas. But these [...]
James Baldwin once said, “The greatest achievement of art is the ‘laying bare of questions which have been hidden by answers’” (as cited in Leafgren, 2009, p. 110). Although Baldwin is not included in text exemplars of Appendix B of the Common Core State [...]
ABOUT BBA The Broader Bolder Approach to Education is a national campaign that acknowledges the impact of social and economic disadvantage on schools and students and proposes evidence-based policies to improve schools and remedy conditions that limit many children’s readiness to learn. BBA was launched in [...]
Abstract: Reference Publication: Review of KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes Contact: William J. Mathis, (802) 383-0058, wmathis@sover.net Gregory Camilli, (303) 492 8391, gregory.camilli@colorado.edu URL for this press release: http://tinyurl.com/cpna3fn BOULDER, CO (April 30, 2013) – Do middle schools operated by the Knowledge Is [...]
Unemployment from a Child’s Perspective By Julia Isaacs | Originally Published at The Urban Institute. March 2013 INTRODUCTION When a parent loses a job, the entire family is affected, including the children. Money is suddenly tighter, and what was affordable last month, no longer is. Even children [...]
