Civil Rights Legend Dolores Huerta Calls on All Educators To ‘Step Up and Organize’
By Mary Ellen Flannery When Dolores Huerta was a young teacher in Stockton, California, she said she couldn’t bear to see her students come to school with empty stomachs and bare feet. She saw their parents’ poverty as the real issue, and her concern led to a lifelong journey for economic justice in this country. In 1962, alongside César Chávez, Huerta launched the National Farm Workers, later kno
Why Aren’t More Girls Attracted To Physics?
Visit Silicon Valley and you will hear many people talk about the need to increase the number of female hackers. The conventional wisdom about why there are so few female coders usually points a finger at disparities in the talent pool, which is linked to disparities in tech education. In fact, starting as early as adolescence, girls and boys often choose different academic paths. When the time co
Florida Virtual School, Other E-Schools Hit the Skids
Across the country, virtual schools are facing challenges over funding and drop in enrollments. The Florida Virtual School, the largest state-run virtual school district in the country, is feeling the impact of two major blows at once: a 32 percent decline in student enrollments since last year, and a change in the way the Florida legislature funds virtual schools. Source: Education Week Related p