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By 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” [...]

By CTU Communications November 7, 2013 Full remarks from Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis at a Nov. 7, 2013, press conference announcing the start of the Union's "Let Us Teach!" campaign against standardized testing: Today we want to share with you some insights into what happens [...]

We all have a personal history, a story we pass on. Perhaps, we were rejected, neglected, abandoned or hidden. Could it be that we were loved, but too much, or were we lost either, each, or neither? Author June Cross has experienced as most of us have, [...]

New Jersey Students Boycott Christie Education Policies, November 4, 2013 New Jersey youth expressed their distress over Governor Christie's education policies months ago, and once again, the Monday before the polls open on Tuesday, November 5th Newark, New Jersey students will speak. Protest Christie's Control Of Newark [...]

Tell the Leaders of the House The Lowdown Originally Posted at Dream Defenders November 3 - Stand Your Ground Community Call >> rsvp: http://bit.ly/sygrsvp November 7 - Stand Your Ground Hearing >> 3pm, Webster hall, 212 knot, fl state capitol [...]

Screening 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 [...]

THE 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 [...]

Originally Published at Theories & Practice. Harvard Family Research Project| The Evaluation Exchange IX 2 M. Elena Lopez and Holly Kreider of HFRP present a framework of authentic parent participation in school reform and its implications for evaluation. Although educators closely scrutinize how this reform [...]

Growing up in poverty can have long-lasting, negative consequences for a child. But for poor children raised by parents who lack nurturing skills, the effects may be particularly worrisome, according to a new study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. [...]