I am convinced that urban children, with their indomitable spirit and inexhaustible supply of grit, are the keys to uplifting and rebuilding our nation to its former glory.
Gordon Brown | Posted 04.18.2012
Every child has a right to an education. Yet millions of children are living in countries where that right is systematically violated as a result of armed conflict.
Kelly Trotter King | Posted 04.19.2012
Sometimes though, life is paradoxical and the teacher becomes the student. A few weeks ago, I suffered a devastating miscarriage. It was my first pregnancy and I was eight weeks along. The news was shocking and came on an early Thursday morning.
Grant Cardone | Posted 04.17.2012
Gov. Jerry Brown, I admire your lifetime of service to the great state of California. As a resident and small business owner of 20 years in Californi...
Meryl Ain, Ed.D. | Posted 04.17.2012
No matter how much household help a mother does or doesn't have, it is she who conveys the values that she wants her children to live by. Whether a mother is a SAHM or works 16-hour days, she is a role model for her children.
Craig McCord | Posted 04.17.2012
Paul Quinn College recently abandoned its football program and converted the field into a working organic farm maintained by the students themselves.
Gene D. Block | Posted 04.17.2012
Today we face a moment of decision. It is time for our leaders to show foresight and courage by recognizing that public higher education is simply too big -- and far too important -- to fail.
Toni Nagy | Posted 04.17.2012
You can be the most sacrificing altruistic mother in the world and your child will resent you for making them your world and never teaching them empathy because you always hid your pain.
Roderick Carey | Posted 04.17.2012
What killed Trayvon is more important to discuss, than whom. While justice will hopefully take care of the who, it is up to us as a collective to problematize the what. In some regards, grappling with the problems on an individual is a far easier task than delving deeply into the societal ills informing individual mindsets and actions.
Ariane Zurcher | Posted 04.17.2012
I am constantly impressed with my 10-year-old autistic daughter Emma's mind and creative use of words. I often think when I listen to her that there's a kind of poetry in the way she phrases things, the way she will use seemingly unrelated words to describe something.
Alan Singer | Posted 04.17.2012
A recent post calling for the racial integration of Long Island New York schools drew a number of both supportive and negative comments. One writer wa...
John Merrow | Posted 04.17.2012
Some moderators seem to feel that it's their job to 'balance' the conversation, giving equal time to everyone. I don't worry about that. In fact, I often tell panelists that they have to speak up if they want to be heard. Life is unfair, and so are panel discussions.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 04.16.2012
Studies imply that more than 80 percent of dropouts would have stayed in school if they believed it was more relevant to real life. Learning how to run a small business can help kids see how their core classes aren't just cruel tortures from adults.
HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 04.17.2012
This year has already seen a slew of controversial incidents involving teachers texting students. Earlier this month, Pennsylvania teacher Timothy Mol...
Tom Allon | Posted 04.16.2012
How did we get to a place in this country where our teaching force of more than three million professionals is being made the scapegoat for all the ills of an educational system that has been in decline for more than five decades?
Akandwahano Dominic | Posted 04.16.2012
In primary school, I had to walk five kilometers daily to and from school, bearing the coldness of the morning on my bare feet before turning around and greeting the dangers of the dark.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 04.16.2012
Our art must change, our approach to marketing must change and the nature of the audience experience must change. If we continue to operate in the same manner as we did in the twentieth century, the arts will die.
Suzanne Skees | Posted 04.15.2012
Julienne was just four during the 1994 genocide. She is HIV-positive and works as an artisan for this member-owned women's collective through The Ih...
Dan Persons | Posted 04.13.2012
Philippe Falardeau's Monsieur Lazhar finds finely-shaded drama in a venue that has defeated many a filmmaker: a classroom full of children.
Brian D. Cohen | Posted 04.13.2012
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been concealed by the answers. -- James Baldwin Art does not reproduce the visible; rather,...
Posted 04.13.2012
President Barack Obama is heading to Cartagena, Colombia to meet with 33 presidents and heads of state in the Summit of the Americas. And one importa...
Christopher Emdin | Posted 04.13.2012
Student protests across the nation are indicators of the rising youth discontent within American public schools and they demand our attention. We as parents, teachers, and community members should support students in their need for more civic engagement in public education standards.
Jeanne Allen | Posted 04.12.2012
Educating the public to understand the mysteries of law making is the first step in ensuring a truly exceptional education for all children for generations to come.
Pamela J. Stubbart | Posted 04.12.2012
Ivan Illich's 1971 book, Deschooling Society, is a classic in the canon of "alternative" educational theory, and the source of one of my favorite quips on education.
Reuters | Mike Taylor | Posted 04.12.2012
(Mike Taylor - Reuters) When Chika Ekeji enrolled in the MIT Sloan School of Business' full-time MBA program, he was ambivalent about actually finishi...
Robert Sun | Posted 04.18.2012