Long Shadow Report: Strong Schools Require Strong Communities
By Paul Horton. An important new study, The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood by Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson, casts doubt on the current policy push to starve neighborhood public schools and fund charter schools that are not connected to supportive communities. The 2014 Russell Sage Foundation study emphasizes that it doe
Rebel-lion by Columbine Rebels Brings Student Walk-Outs to South Jeffco
By Paula Noonan. The Rebels — students from Columbine High School — headed to adjacent Clement Park at 10:30am yesterday to protest the Jefferson County (Jeffco), Colorado, school board’s anti-Advanced Placement/US History resolution. The Rebels, the George Washington kind from the American Revolution, got lots of car honks from supportive Jeffco citizens. Asked whether their teachers “put them
9-25-14 All NEW Living in Dialogue - A Response to Marc Tucker: Can We Win the Struggle For Democracy When Big Money Writes Public Education Policy?
Home - Living in Dialogue: A Response to Marc Tucker: Can We Win the Struggle For Democracy When Big Money Writes Public Education Policy?By Denny Taylor. I have read with interest the dialogue between Marc Tucker, Diane Ravitch, Anthony Cody, and Yong Zhao on the establishment of an American test-based public education accountability system. Forty years of research on the impact of political stru