Communities of color have been decimated by corporate reform. Now anger spreads when it affects white folk like @RBNLake
Robin Lake of Seattle writes: As the director of an education think tank focused on national issues, it feels indulgent to write about my own kids’ experiences in the public school system. But there’s no better way to illustrate one of the reasons my organization pursues the work it does on behalf of students. Let […]
The Conversation: Moving ‘quality’ teachers between schools will not help disadvantaged children
Moving ‘quality’ teachers between schools will not help disadvantaged childrenFiled under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical Tagged: disadvantaged children
YESTERDAY
You don’t know the meaning of #dontbackdown
I’m pretty angry. Yesterday, I was on a panel discussing Teach For America with, among others, Josh Anderson- head of TFA Chicago. Overall, I thought the panel went well. Debate was passionate (mostly on my part) but civil. Still, at the very end, when Josh gave the final remarks of the event, he said something […]
3-4-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Some Details on the First NPE ConferenceThe first annual Network for Public Education (NPE) Conference was this past weekend, on Saturday, March 1, and Sunday, March 2, 2014. Below is a news brief on the conference: I participated in the NPE conference as a member of three panel discussions, the topics being investigative journalism, philanthropy (as such is undermining the democ