I was thinking as I was coming home that any minute someone is going to recast the teachers in the Atlanta Public School cheating scandal as “victims” of NCLB (No Child Left Behind).
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And you wonder why Obama sends his kids to private school.
I recently came across this video on a public school in Massachusetts that went on a field trip to a local mosque.
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We are being told that the Census will help provide a “fair and accurate count” so that government will know how to distribute resources fairly.
Make no mistake about it, government knows EXACTLY where Black folks live yet…
Minority Businesses Shut Out of Stimulus Loans
Reality Check: One Year after Stimulus, Blacks and Latinos Still Struggling
Stimulus’ Failure [...]
Need a way to measure just how far our public school system has fallen?
The status quo cannot be the end of our children!
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This is what I wrote back in June of this year~
“I have to admit that oftentimes I have mixed emotions anytime I hear about a school that has been doing poorly for years suddenly able to significantly able to raise test scores without making any major changes to the preexisting failing system.
Do I want to [...]
To me, government fixing something is like the times I used to bang my old Black and White TV (Wow! Do they even make those anymore?) in a futile effort to get a decent signal. The only thing my banging did was to accelerate the death spiral of that poor television set. And get this, [...]
Boston newspaper Bay State Banner is covering the current investigation in Boston, Mass. that is looking into why the lack of Black teachers in the Boston public school district.
“The district court order — issued by Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. as part of his 1974 ruling in Boston’s landmark school desegregation case — calls [...]
USA Today has an article in this morning’s paper where they are talking about how a growing number of public schools in urban areas are turning to marketing as a way to woo students back to their schools.
“…the brochures distributed by volunteers spell out what’s going well, including: All city high schools have met state [...]
I have to admit that oftentimes I have mixed emotions anytime I hear about a school that has been doing poorly for years suddenly able to significantly able to raise test scores without making any major changes to the preexisting failing system.
Do I want to see kids improve? Of course I do. But I oftentimes [...]
University of Chicago Press Journals
Study: Teachers choose schools according to student race
A study forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that high-quality teachers tend to leave schools that experience inflows of black students. According to the study’s author, C. Kirabo Jackson (Cornell University), this is the first study to show that a school’s racial [...]
Many moons ago, I remember when the public school I attended wanted to put me in a class for “slow learners”. Thankfully, my parents weren’t having that and told my teacher “no”.
Mind you…
…this is the same system folks feel that we need to spend more money to “fix”. Yup. The same system that is systematically [...]
Boston.com
They come from places like Harvard, Yale, and Brown, inspired to share their energy and knowledge with public school children.
But the Boston Teachers Union has a message for those eager Teach for America recruits: Thanks, but no thanks.
With the first batch of 20 corps members scheduled to arrive in the fall, just months after probable [...]
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