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Should Schools Introduce Dress Codes for Parents?
Mama Sass, a Miami mother of two, blogs at MomsMiami.com. Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. April 15, 2014 Go to the grocery school. Dine out for dinner. Even at a cocktail party, conversations about our children’s school abound. Everyone you speak […]
Civil Rights Complaint Targets New Orleans Charter Group Collegiate Academies
All Photographs represent aspects within the civil rights complaint. Tuesday, December 17, 2013. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune) What do we do when an ugly reality comes face-to-face with the pretty picture fame and fortune flaunted? Do we run? Do we hide? Do we […]
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Imagining Equity Literacy
By Paul C. Gorski | Originally Published at Teaching Tolerance. April 10, 2014 Cultural competence: I learn about Latino culture so that I can communicate effectively with my Latino students’ families. Cultural proficiency: Acknowledging the tremendous diversity among Latino families, I learn about the cultures, identities and […]
The Paradox of Race in the U.S.
Generic Image (Istockphoto) By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originlly Published at The Becoming Radical. April 14, 2014 The paradox of race in the U.S.: In order to become a culture in which race does not matter, race must always matter. Due this coming June, my first […]
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Parental Involvement Is Overrated
Parental Involvement Is Overrated By Keith Robinson and Angel L. Harris | Originally Published at The New York Times. April 12, 2014 Most people, asked whether parental involvement benefits children academically, would say, “of course it does.” But evidence from our research suggests otherwise. In fact, most […]
Raising a Moral Child
By Adam Grant | Originally Published at The New York Times. April 11, 2014 What does it take to be a good parent? We know some of the tricks for teaching kids to become high achievers. For example, research suggests that when parents praise effort rather than […]
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Why the Illusion of a Violent Generation Endures
Photograph By Todd Heisler/The New York Times, via Redux By Bonnie Bertram | Originally Published at The Daily Beast. April 8, 2014 In a matter of weeks last fall, several Brooklyn residents—from a 78-year-old woman to a 19-year-old man—were attacked in the street with a swift “knock […]
Two Americas: George W. Bush and Neil deGrasse Tyson
“This country was founded on the idea of concentrating wealth in the hands of a few white men,” Mychal Denzel Smith asserts in “We Built This Country on Inequality,” adding, “That that persists today isn’t a flaw in the design. Everything is working as the founders intended.” Smith’s claim has two parts that challenge the Great American Myth of meritocracy: those two parts being then and now. At t
YESTERDAY
Paternalism, Old or New, Blinds
22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. Ephesians 5:22-24 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Colossians 3:18 The
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“There’s a Muslim in America Named Muhammad Ali”
There’s a Muslim in America named Muhammad Ali. Louis Farrakhan, The Trials of Muhammad Ali The Trials of Muhammad Ali opens with contrasting responses to Muhammad Ali, highlighted by the awkward ceremony in which George W. Bush awarded Ali the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Trials of Muhammad Ali The documentary follows footage of that ceremony with Louis Farrakan struggling with Ali’s pron
AlterNet: What We Lose When We Rip the Heart Out of Arts Education
What We Lose When We Rip the Heart Out of Arts Education
Pat Tillman (11/6/76 – 4/22/04): A Decade of Forgetting
On the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, David Zirin highlights a nearly concurrent anniversary: Two wrenching anniversaries loom in the world of sports. Both are in many respects conjoined by the dominant narratives of the twenty-first century. Both show how the military adventures of the last decade have even breeched the escapist sanctity of the sports page. Both contain element
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The Paradox of Race in the U.S.
The paradox of race in the U.S.: In order to become a culture in which race does not matter, race must always matter. Due this coming June, my first granddaughter will be born into this world a bi-racial child during the second term of the first bi-racial president of the U.S. The symbolic power of that coincidence is, I think, significant, but the realities of the U.S.—I regret to add—far outweig
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Devaluing Teachers in the Age of Value-Added
“We teach the children of the middle class, the wealthy and the poor,” explains Anthony Cody, continuing: We teach the damaged and disabled, the whole and the gifted. We teach the immigrants and the dispossessed natives, the transients and even the incarcerated. In years past we formed unions and professional organizations to get fair pay, so women would get the same pay as men. We got due proces
