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EmpathyEducates Path Towards True Progress In Public Education Policy EmpathyEducates is dedicated to establishing fair and equitable education policies, those that ensure equal education for all. EE forges a path for real and effective reforms. We work to impede entrepreneurial attempts to “restructure” our [...]

Why do we work and when do we feel good about what we do? In our private lives we pursue projects; we do mundane deeds. We wash the dishes, take out the garbage – clearly we want to be clean. We also do challenging deeds. We run [...]

By Darnell L. Moore | Originally Published The Feminist Wire. September 12, 2012 “Darnell, you can’t write.” I was an eighth-grade student at Morgan Village Middle School in Camden, New Jersey, when you, my Language Arts instructor, reprimanded me in front of my classmates and uttered [...]

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 [...]

Gawker published the essay, "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America" last year, three weeks after George Zimmerman told Sean Hannity that the shooting of Trayvon Martin "was all God's plan." As the jury deliberates in the State vs. George Zimmerman case, we [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The holiday season is the best of times and the worst of times. It always was. There is beauty of tradition. City lights gleam. Faces beam and homes are decorated in recognition. Each year and every year there is a celebration. Everywhere you turn people [...]