Originally Published at National Association for Multicultural Education February 1, 2003 Numerous definitions of multicultural education have been proposed or espoused by scholars, researchers and organizations over the past 30 years. To assist researchers, teachers, educators, and parents in understanding and implementing multicultural education, the National Association [...]
Inquiry [Critical Thought]
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:39-05:00Inquiry; Critical Thought is the catalyst for all newer ideas. Each and every innovation is borne out of inspiration, which is informed by asking. We might ask another or probe our own minds. Either way, inquiry begins an investigation. We gather facts, figures, and formulas. But these [...]
Laying Bare of Questions Which Have Been Hidden by [Common Core] Answers
Jane M. Gangi2016-11-29T17:39:39-05:00James 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 [...]
Market-Oriented Education Reforms’ Rhetoric Trumps Reality
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:40-05:00ABOUT 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 [...]
KIPP Study is Useful, but It Overreaches
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:40-05:00Abstract: 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
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:40-05:00Unemployment 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 [...]
A Colorblind Constitution: What Abigail Fisher’s Affirmative Action Case Is Really About
Nikole Hannah-Jones2016-11-29T17:39:42-05:00Update, 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 [...]
Q&A with Author and Law Professor Michelle Alexander – The School-To-Prison Pipeline
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:42-05:00The 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 [...]
The ‘Acting White Theory’ Doesn’t Add Up
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:42-05:00(The Root) -- Do black students purposefully underachieve because they attribute being smart to "acting white"? For more than a decade, academics, policymakers and cultural critics have publicly chided black children for having an anti-intellectual attitude, based on the "Acting White Theory." [...]