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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 [...]

By Adam Bessie and Josh Neufeld, | Truthout | Graphic Journalism. February 7, 2014 1] “Promise Neighborhoods and the Importance of Community: Remarks of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at Neval Thomas Elementary School, Washington, DC.” Dec. 21, 2012 [2] “Fuel Your School Program Benefits [...]

“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 [...]

Education Listening Project In the summer of 2013 we interviewed 40 individuals whose words, stories and passion about the current state of education in America is helping us understand what frames are most important and relevant to education justice in 2014. Spirit in Action is proud to [...]

Here’s Phillip B. Agnew, executive director of the Dream Defenders, delivering the real State of the Union On January 28th, Phil Agnew of the Dream Defenders delivers the first ever State of the Youth Address, outlining the social justice priorities of millions of young voters. 

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Our new report, originally published on January 24, 2014, is too long to post in its entirety in blog form. The report can be downloaded here: Weber.Baker_OneNewark_Jan24_2014 Below is the executive summary of the report: Executive Summary On December 18, 2013, State Superintendent Cami Anderson announced [...]

Why do so many whites respond to the dog whistle refrain that they, and not minorities, are today’s most likely victims of racial discrimination? Colorblindness helps to legitimate the substance of dog whistle complaints because it promotes understandings of race and racism that obscure discrimination [...]

Yvette V. Lapayese, Ph.D., Loyola Marymount University
Ursula S. Aldana, Ph.D.,Loyola Marymount University
Eduardo Lara, Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies | Originally Published at Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education. | Volume 11 Issue 1 Winter 2014 Download the Report [pdf] Introduction One [...]

Few names conjure the recalcitrant South, fighting integration with fire-breathing fury, like that of George Wallace. The central image of this “redneck poltergeist,” as one biographer referred to him, is of Wallace during his inauguration as governor of Alabama in January 1963, before waves of [...]