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Enlarge this image A new study out of Yale found that pre-K teachers, white and black alike, spend more time watching black boys, expecting trouble. LA Johnson/NPR hide caption toggle caption LA Johnson/NPR A new study out of Yale found that pre-K teachers, white and black alike, spend more time watching black…
F your “F” When I was 32 I was diagnosed with a massive learning disability. It took eight weeks of intense, tiring, embarrassing testing and observation. When my assessment advisor stepped into his office to deliver my results he opened a fat file, pulled out a report and asked me what I wanted to hear first:…
share tweet pin email During last year’s trial in which graduating senior Owen Labrie was charged with sexually assaulting a younger student at the prestigious St. Paul’s School, his accuser was shielded in anonymity by law. Chessy Prout, who was 15 years old at the time of the incident, has now decided to publicly reveal…
Since the publication of the first issue of Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro in December of 2014, many people, inside and outside of academia, have pointed to the comic, the related backmatter and essays, and even the community that has formed around it–as embodied by the many tattoos of the…
POST WRAPPER POST HEADER ENTRY CONTENT Download PDF What this report finds: The teacher pay penalty is bigger than ever. In 2015, public school teachers’ weekly wages were 17.0 percent lower than those of comparable workers—compared with just 1.8 percent lower in 1994. This erosion of relative teacher wages has fallen more heavily on…
As the parent of a toddler, there are multiple, competing opinions about basically every decision I make in regards to my almost three-year-old’s life. One thing that you get pretty universal criticism about, though, is putting an electronic device into the hands of a tiny person. Rest assured, my daughter has never tried to swipe…
AddThis Sharing Buttons above Written by Victoria Myers Illustrations by Desiree Nasim April 28th, 2016 In 1944, journalist Martha Gellhorn hid in the bathroom of a hospital ship crossing the English Channel and became the only woman to land on Normandy Beach. In 1945, she was one of the first journalists—male or female—to visit and…
Think college is expensive? Try sending your kid to full-time day care or preschool. In nearly half the country, it’s now more expensive to educate a 4-year-old in preschool than an 18-year-old in college, a finding that illustrates the rising burden many families face affording care for children. The annual cost of care for a…
104.4K Shares post-social-count Share Tweet Share Share Email social-sharing-top President Obama’s 2017 budget proposal has removed a $10 million annual grant that goes towards funding “abstinence-only” sexual education classes in public schools. By eliminating the grant, Obama would end the financial incentive for states to continue teaching the debunked sex-ed program. “Abstinence Only” is a…
School integration at the Barnard School in Washington, D.C. in 1955. O’Halloran, Thomas J., photographer, the Library of Congress The schools around Charlotte were once admired nationwide. They offered a model for successful racial integration — proof that a diverse community could raise its children with shared values and shared opportunity. That dream crumbled in the early 2000s,…