Parents Livid Over CPS Investigators Questioning Kids Over ISAT Boycott
Photograph; Drummond Montessori School students were pulled out of class and questioned about the recent ISAT tests Thursday afternoon 3-20-14. | Kevin Tanaka/For Sun-Times Media By Jon Seidel And Mitch Dudek | Originally Published at Chicago Sun Times. March 20, 2014 Furious Bucktown elementary school parents said […]
CNN’s Chicagoland Does No Good For Chicago Public Schools Students
By Ray Salazar, The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino English Teacher | Originally Published at Chicago Now. March 14, 2014 at 12:27 am A couple of weeks ago, I participated in a conversation about Chicago Public Schools with a group that learned about our schools mainly through […]
Don’t Help Your Kids With Their Homework
Illustration; By Jean Jullien By Dana Goldstein | Originally Published at The Atlantic. March 19 2014, 9:06 PM ET One of the central tenets of raising kids in America is that parents should be actively involved in their children’s education: meeting with teachers, volunteering at school, helping […]
3-22-14 the becoming radical EMPATHYEDUCATES! | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
THE BECOMING RADICALRadical ScholarshipEMPATHYEDUCATES!the becoming radical A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by The Big Topic on Campus: Racial ‘Microaggressions’A student performed a monologue in March in which he describes how he was misidentified as the help at a cocktail party he attended in the play, “I, Too, Am Harvard,” in Cambridge, Mass. Credit; Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times By