Opinion | Un-American targeting right here in Virginia washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Exam schools loom large both as symbols of opportunity and inequality hechingerreport.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hechingerreport.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
I entered the teacher preparation program thinking that I was one of the few people on this earth who possessed a critical consciousness á la Paulo Freire, a leading advocate of critical teaching. This was a result of my work with Karen teenagers in Ithaca, NY, the Karen being an ethnic group persecuted in Burma, of which many resettled in the United States.
Over the course of two years, I worked with them in brainstorming, designing and finally painting a mural that represented their community. The lessons I learned from this grassroots work were invaluable. I will use an oft-quoted phrase to sum up what I took away from the experience: “nothing about us without us.” The teenagers were front and center in the project, and as an employee of the 4H Urban Outreach Program, my job was to be a facilitator.
Government Schools Make Everyone Equally Mediocre townhall.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from townhall.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A group of parents at the nation’s top high school is suing the county school board for adopting new admissions practices that would slash the number of incoming Asian-American students.