From the accepted view that Black and Latino students will do worse than their White peers, two educational systems have emerged in America: one for White students, and another for students of color. But what would happen if we expected more from our youth?
A Wisconsin district attorney is urging schools to drop their sex-education programs, warning that the teachers involved could be arrested if they fol...
We can all learn a lot from Constance McMillan and how she has handled herself -- when we see something that doesn't seem right, it probably isn't. And it is the responsibility of every one of us to take some kind of action on behalf of fairness.
A lesbian teen who successfully sued her Mississippi school for the right to bring her girlfriend to prom was left out and was instead directed to a "...
Six-year old Meghan Lloyd-Winstanley sits in a plastic chair, looking down at her hands, as her mother, Teasha, stands above her recounting a laundry list of problems.
If you really cared about wages of the working poor -- including the Latino working poor -- you'd want to make sure that this wave of 12 million illegals was the last wave.
The HeArt Project is designed specifically for kids who have struggled in traditional educational environments and are at risk of dropping out of high school.
As someone who is almost always capable of maintaining good cheer and enjoying myself, the tediousness of entering numbers into Quicken and doing the checks and re-checks is excruciating.
Day after day, Christina Lebron walked through the gloomy hallways of her Brooklyn high school, the drab beige walls somehow magnifying her depressing...
PHILADELPHIA -- Who knew a school cafeteria could be so much fun?
A space where hundreds of Philadelphia charter school students have been eating the...
Michelle Obama's recent decision to make childhood obesity her personal cause struck me deeply. Childhood obesity isn't just a public health issue, it's a social justice issue.
I recently wrote about new challenges to school integration in two North Carolina school districts. The South has been the region that made the most p...
If it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a village to fail one. In this failure, we are all culpable, whether for our actions or for inaction that has allowed the status quo to become mediocrity.
While the DREAM Act has inspired bold activism led by educators and students, its status as a pillar of the immigration reform movement may be somewhat undercut by the taint of the military recruitment machine.
With music education in danger as funding gets cut, organizations like VH1 Save the Music and Music Unites are more important than ever.
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Should we be further exposing our school kids to commercialization -- even if it means there's some extra cash for school districts at the end of the day?
The Bloomberg-Klein machine that runs, and is destroying, the public school system has made some powerful enemies, including the students from University Heights High School in the Bronx.
The children presented "Big Books" about the amazing potato, the impact of the famine, Irish emigration, and famous Americans of Irish ancestry to President McAleese of Ireland.
By incorporating their own conservative values into guidelines for history classes, the Texas Board of Education may force the entire nation to adopt their right-wing re-write of history.