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Ah, to Create. Creative Thought takes us down roads not yet traveled. To be truly creative we must consider practicalities, but never lose sight of the veracity that these are but a springboard. With feet planted firmly in the familiar, we are able to leap great heights. [...]

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 [...]

Update, June 29, 2015: The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would again hear Fisher v. Texas, an affirmative action case in which a white woman claims she was denied admission to the University of Texas because of her race. In 2013, the Court [...]

Sha'Condria "iCon" Sibley understands all too well that each of us is given a name at birth. Some of us ask and some never do, but we wonder. "Why?" "Why was this name chosen?" We ask our parents. Did you anticipate that my life would be [...]

The school-to-prison pipeline: growing up in a system designed for failureThe criminalization of student behavior and mass incarceration By Rebekah Skelton | Originally Published at Rebekah Skelton. February 15, 2013 The school-to-prison pipeline is a national trend that involves taking students out of public schools and [...]