What choice does is establish the conditions under which change can happen. It frees families from an intransigent bureaucracy that has failed to meet their needs for decades.
Forty five years after Dr. King's life was taken on the balcony of a Memphis hotel, his dream lives on. His dream lives on because of the work of people like C.J. Stewart, who find enough burden in their heart to dedicate their lives to improving those of others.
When it comes to Black and Latino kids in urban schools, educators need to ask themselves an honest question: do you care more about academic performance of students or student behavior?
IS 318's class president found himself in "a huge fiscal crisis" when the Brooklyn school's principal announced $1 million in cuts that would threaten...
Teaching in a business school offers insights into the value of information: how knowledge creates opportunities and, when combined with capital, generates wealth.
Restorative practices is a movement slowly transforming troubled schools and troubled communities around the globe -- a movement replacing zero tolerance and other punishment-based and wildly ineffective practices that increase people's feelings of separation and alienation from one another.
Did you ever stop to wonder what life would be like for you if you were a poor black kid? Here's a hint: you probably wouldn't be allowed to write abo...
If I were a middle aged white man, I wouldn't write articles called "If I Were a Poor Black Kid" for Forbes. With a title like that, it wouldn't matter what points I was making.
The lockdown model of education with oppressive rules and blindly inflexible enforcement is a failure. Let's find a way to replace punishment with inspiration, dispassionate control with tough love.
Behind every education statistic is a boy with hopes and dreams and abilities that may not show up in standardized testing.
A passion for both activism and global affairs came naturally to Scott Warren, who lived throughout Latin America and Africa growing up. Finding like-...
Changed attitudes, values and behavior are the building blocks of empowerment. So, what needs to happen to fix our schools is not rocket science. Priorities for parent involvement need to be changed and alternative approaches explored.
Thirty people in a room, all teachers in high school and GED programs in various prisons from across New York State, listening to me talk about teaching locked up kids.
In a world where education is the key to success in an ever more competitive global economy, STEM programs make it possible for students to see themselves as innovators and inventors.
All parents ought to step up and take care of their children and teach them self-control and the value of education. But pointing blame at parents when students are not making progress in our classrooms is weak.
This highly effective documentary is equal parts a tragedy, a desperate call to action, and an indictment of an expensive dysfunctional system.
I hope you will tune in to NBC's Education Nation. Watch, listen and join the conversations this week and beyond.
I first introduced you to the band Soulfège through its leader -- musician, public speaker, entrepreneur and Oprah Radio host, Derrick Ashong -- in m...
By Mara Siegler Since the release of her critically acclaimed debut album, The Bridge, R&B singer Melanie Fiona has been on a quick rise to stardom: ...
Eddie Morris, Ph.D., social worker extraordinaire, has devised a remarkable approach for helping students in the deprived and troubled public schools near Atlanta.
The Music Unites Youth Choir was given the opportunity this past week through New York charity Music Unites to visit Tainted Blue Recording Studio in ...
Sting and his wife Trudie Styler gathered together alongside other legendary music icons across generations Thursday night for the annual Rainforest F...
Back in 1977, I was Derrion Albert. But today, sadly, I shudder and cringe at the thought of trying to wade through life as a 16-year-old African-American Chicago public school student.
A collaboration of teaching organizations made a frail attempt to exhume the 1990's Ebonics debacle by acknowledging African American English in their training curriculum.
I told Mr.Cosby I needed to attend the Bar Mitzvah of my best friend's son. "That's quite fitting that you'll be doing that at the same time as I'm speaking," he told me with a heartfelt intensity. "Because I'm going to Cleveland for the very same purpose."
