Ready for Kindergarten Preparing a child for school doesn’t start the moment he or she walks into the kindergarten classroom. The preparations start the moment that child is born. Students’ very first classroom is their home and [...]
The Assessment Landscape – Chris Tienken
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:29-05:00“Provide our children with rich diverse curriculum with multiple pathways to success that they need to become cognitively nimble and responsible citizens. …stop wasting time, money and children’s futures on trying to compare them to some mythical prototype in another country or trying to make every child [...]
‘American Promise’ and ‘Promises Kept’ – The Black Male Achievement Gap
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:29-05:00‘American Promise’ and ‘Promises Kept’: New documentary, book tackle black male achievement gap By Alexis Garrett Stodghill | Originally Published at The Grio. February 3, 2014 at 4:42 PM New documentary, book tackle black male achievement gap Inspired [...]
“I’d Choose Us”
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:29-05:00In response to the question "If You Had A Trillion Dollars…Page May submitted "I'd Choose Us" "I'd Choose Us" 24 seconds That's all it takes Every two four We're closer to ignorance one second more Cus every twenty four more another kid walks out the [...]
“The New Public” Tackles Poverty and Education
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00By Greg Kaufmann and Elaine Weiss | Originally Published at Bill Moyers and company.November 12, 20013 We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following is an excerpt from Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week in Poverty” [...]
Education Film Series: “The New Public”
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:33-05:00Screening Event Details and Registration The award-winning 2013 documentary The New Public chronicles the lives, and daily experiences, of a group of high school teachers and their students in their first and fourth years in an alternative school in the tough Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Director [...]
Film Review; The New Public
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:33-05:00THE NEW PUBLIC TRAILER from THE NEW PUBLIC on Vimeo. Perhaps, the greatest pleasure is having the freedom to think, say, do, feel, and be as you are and/or as you choose. Yet, this liberty is rarely granted to us. In the United States we might wish [...]
Henry Louis Gates Jr. On Untangling African-American History
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:33-05:00Empirical evidence has helped us understand the roots of racism and why it is rampant in American society. Psychologist and Social Scientist Daniel Kahneman discovered, "What You See Is All There Is [WYSIATI.] Today, in the United States, we see colors, separate and unequal. [...]
Growing Fairness; The Film
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:34-05:00Growing Fairness teaser from Teachers Unite on Vimeo. For more information about collaborative workshops, screenings, and resources, visit Teachers Unite. Restorative Justice's After-School Special By Bryce Stucki | Originally Published at The American Prospect. October 4, 2013 The documentary [...]