Latest News and Comment from Education

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

A Must Read: The McEducation of the Negro | Seattle Education 2010

A Must Read: The McEducation of the Negro | Seattle Education 2010

A Must Read: The McEducation of the Negro

From: The Root

By Natalie Hopkinson

Below are the introductory paragraphs.

Dora

Franchising is an outstanding model for selling Big Macs. But it can be toxic to classrooms.

Something wasn’t right at the high school that Darwin Bridgers’ son attends, so he sat in on the class to see for himself. All morning long, the instructor at the Washington, D.C., charter school pointed to a list of ground rules, a detailed list of rewards and punishments posted on a wall near the front of the