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Why I Support School Choice

Michael McShane | Posted 04.01.2013 | Home
Michael McShane

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.

Dr. King's Legacy Lives on in Atlanta: The Story of C.J. Stewart and L.E.A.D.

Alicia Jessop | Posted 03.22.2013 | Sports
Alicia Jessop

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.

Ain't Misbehavin'

Randy Miller | Posted 02.25.2013 | Home
Randy Miller

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?

Stewart Talks Inner City Students: 'I Give You All The Respect In The World'

Posted 11.13.2012 | Home

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...

Journeys With a Daoist in the Business World

Keith Weigelt | Posted 07.23.2012 | College
Keith Weigelt

Teaching in a business school offers insights into the value of information: how knowledge creates opportunities and, when combined with capital, generates wealth.

Transforming Troubled Schools

Robert Koehler | Posted 04.03.2012 | Home
Robert Koehler

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.

Jason Linkins

Journalist: 'Poor Black Kids' Should Work Harder To Escape Poverty

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.14.2011 | Media

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

Louis Peitzman | Posted 02.12.2012 | Home
Louis Peitzman

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.

Question Authority, Students; Show Them How, Teachers

Larry Strauss | Posted 02.07.2012 | Home
Larry Strauss

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.

Too Important to Fail

Tavis Smiley | Posted 11.12.2011 | Black Voices
Tavis Smiley

2011-09-12-tavistavistavis.jpgBehind every education statistic is a boy with hopes and dreams and abilities that may not show up in standardized testing.

Curtis M. Wong

Encouraging Inner City Teens To Be Politically Active

HuffingtonPost.com | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 09.24.2011 | Impact

A passion for both activism and global affairs came naturally to Scott Warren, who lived throughout Latin America and Africa growing up. Finding like-...

How and Why Urban Schools Fail to Engage Parents of Color

Patricia A. Ackerman | Posted 08.27.2011 | Home
Patricia A. Ackerman

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.

Teachers In Tough Places

David Chura | Posted 08.01.2011 | Home
David Chura

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.

Star Science Students Aren't too Cool for School

Gloria Bonilla Santiago | Posted 06.14.2011 | Home
Gloria Bonilla Santiago

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.

Teachers, Let's Stop Blaming Parents

Larry Strauss | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Larry Strauss

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.

Waiting for "Superman"

Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Michael Jones

This highly effective documentary is equal parts a tragedy, a desperate call to action, and an indictment of an expensive dysfunctional system.

Education Nation

Rehema Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Rehema Ellis

I hope you will tune in to NBC's Education Nation. Watch, listen and join the conversations this week and beyond.

Stix Bones of Soulfège

Lucia Brawley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Lucia Brawley

I first introduced you to the band Soulfège through its leader -- musician, public speaker, entrepreneur and Oprah Radio host, Derrick Ashong -- in m...

Music Unites Ambassador Melanie Fiona Launches Empowering Women Through Music Initiative

Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Michelle Edgar

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: ...

Breaking the Cycle: Troubled Kids in Failing Schools

Dr. Wendy Jacobson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Dr. Wendy Jacobson

Eddie Morris, Ph.D., social worker extraordinaire, has devised a remarkable approach for helping students in the deprived and troubled public schools near Atlanta.

Music Unites Youth Choir Records Original Song at Tainted Blue Recording Studio

Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Michelle Edgar

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 ...

Rainforest Foundation Celebrates 21st Anniversary With Carnegie Hall Benefit Concert

Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Michelle Edgar

Sting and his wife Trudie Styler gathered together alongside other legendary music icons across generations Thursday night for the annual Rainforest F...

Today's Derrion Albert Wholly Different From 1977 Predecessor

Derrick K. Baker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Derrick K. Baker

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.

Uh Oh, Here We Go Again with Ebonics 2.0

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Natalie Holder-Winfield

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.

Bill Cosby's "Bar Mitzvah" in Cleveland

Joel Brokaw | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Joel Brokaw

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."