THE BECOMING RADICAL
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Racism not Below the Surface in U.S., Still
Since it is just sports, that LeBran James and Carmelo Anthony are wielding a significant amount of power during the NBA off-season could easily go unnoticed except for sports fans and those enthralled by ESPN and sports media. But how James and Anthony are framed should be placed in context, notably the recent confrontation and arrest of an African American female professor at Arizona State Unive
JUL 08
Why Is Arne Duncan Still Pushing the Dangerous Myth of Low Expectations? | Alternet
Why Is Arne Duncan Still Pushing the Dangerous Myth of Low Expectations? | Alternet
Teaching Students, Not Standards or Programs
If you believe shoddy commentary at The New York Times (and you shouldn’t), we have more to fear from balanced literacy than the zombie apocalypse. The central problem with the sudden surge in assaults on balanced literacy is that–like almost all of the “sky is falling” rants against progressivism, whole language, etc.–this round of “beware balance literacy” is not about teaching reading (or stude
JUL 06
“About Time” about Looking Hard Enough
The second time around Dad says about his son Tim at Tim’s wedding: I’d only give one piece of advice to anyone marrying. We’re all quite similar in the end. We all get old and tell the same tales too many times. But try and marry someone kind. And this is a kind man with a good heart. I’m not particularly proud of many things in my life, but I am very proud to be the father of my son. It is easy
Anger, Frustration as Hundreds of New Orleans Parents Turned Away From Public School Enrollment Center
Hundreds of parents waited in lines at Lake Area School on Paris Avenue Thursday, July 10, 2014, to enroll their children in a Recovery School District school. (Photographs; by Dinah Rogers, NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune) Perhaps today, we have an opportunity to, once again, realize that Charter […]
JUL 10
This Is What Happened When I Drove My Mercedes To Pick Up Food Stamps
Sara Bareilles played softly through the surround-sound speakers of my husband’s 2003 Mercedes Kompressor as I sat idling at a light. I’d never been to this church before, but I could see it from where I was, across from an old park, abandoned in the chilly September […]
All Chicago Students Will Get Free Meals This School Year
Photograph; School Children in meal line. | Credit Reuters Adults, this may be a necessary lesson. Feed all the children for free, regardless of their family income, and you can save money and also end discrimination. The side-benefits are tremendous. The state would no longer need to […]
The Limits of Reading Rainbow
By Adrienne Raphel | Originally Published at The New Yorker. July 2, 2014 On May 28th, the people behind Reading Rainbow launched a Kickstarter campaign to “Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere.” They gave themselves thirty-five days to raise a million dollars; that took less […]
No, Gay Isn’t the New Black
Photograph; Ernest Owens | Ernest Media Empire, Incorporated. By Ernest Owens | Originally Published at Huffington Post. Black Voices. July 8, 2014 5:38 PM EDT As society “progress,” we have become a bunch of cultural sycophants obsessed with creating false affirmations and pseudo-solidarities. I quite frankly cannot […]
JUL 09
The Dirty, Little Secret in America’s Education Wars? Money Matters
Photograph; From left to right: Five year old Taylor Weber, in pink in middle, helps her older brother Andrew Weber, 8, right in green, hold up a protest sign they made by hand. The two go to Hutchinson Elementary School in Lakewood and are on a furlough […]
JUL 08
The Education Paradigm – Raising Children to Return to Our Basements
Illustration; Shutterstock By Yong Zhao | Originally Published at Zhao Learning.. July 2, 2014 Last year when my son graduated from college, I asked the question “can you stay out of my basement?” as I believe an important outcome of education is the ability to live out […]
JUL 07
Black People Were Denied Vanilla Ice Cream in the Jim Crow South – Except on Independence Day
It was only 60 years ago that this would have been an unheard of sight in the south. Photograph: My Mundane Life / Flickr Over the last many decades, we have removed History from the curriculum. But fortunately, we did not forget it. The past cannot be […]
Bill Gates Needs To Drop His Common Core Obsession
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates London June 13, 2011. | Reuters/Paul Hackett By Michael P. Mazenko | Originally Published at Salon. July 7, 2014 It’s hard to envision Bill Gates not getting exactly what he wants, or backing down from anything. However, that was before he became the […]
JUL 06
Common Core Battle Escalates
What happens in each state reminds us that we are all connected. Politicians vie for elected positions and education school officials take advantageous stands. To be for or against Common Core State Standards is ever-changing. How much of this depends on who makes decisions? Is it a […]