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Journey for Justice: Our Children are not Collateral Damage! from Rachel Dickson on Vimeo. Journey for Justice Alliance Hearing: "Our Children are not Collateral Damage!" On January 29th 2013, the Department of Education, Civil Rights Division held a Hearing on School Closures, Turnarounds, Phase-Outs [...]

A Year At Mission Hill was just the beginning! It’s high time to buck the notion that children from urban neighborhoods need regimented, standardized, “back to basics” approaches! Unlike most of their public school peers, Mission Hill teachers have control of their curriculum, and a say in [...]

Jada Williams, a 13-year-old student at Rochester's School No. 3, did as all students are asked to do, she diligently approached an additional, optional assignment. She read the RocRead-assigned book, The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass. Jada reflected. Then she [...]

There was a brief moment last week, I think, when people were talking about public schools and the Wisconsin recalls. But that’s all kind of a hazy memory now. The news about bin Laden broke as I was past the point of no return, deadline-wise. [...]

Schools were originally intended to build the innate desire to dream. The aim has not died, but adult realities set in. Rules and regulations that restrain youthful minds are imposed. Even when students are given the opportunity to express themselves much is prescribed. Few children [...]

After 30 years of watching the public school open classroom where his wife taught, and admiring at a distance the model for learning that had evolved, Tom Valens couldn’t miss the opportunity to film her last class from beginning to end. And so he was there the [...]