The Racial Shift In The Class Of 2026

The racial makeup in American schools is shifting toward majority-minority. Is what we’re leaving to the Class of 2026 something we should be proud of?

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
بواسطة Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Dana Redd, Paymon Rouhanifard, Chris Christie

As American students head back to school this year many teachers and parents will likely not notice a subtle change in the makeup of the nation’s classrooms. Last year, approximately 51 percent of America’s public school students were white, while blacks, Hispanics, Asian and Pacific Islanders, and children of mixed-race couples constituted 49

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US Has “Much Left To Do” On Racism: Segregation Worse Now Than In 70s

One UN committee member is shocked that “in spite of several decades of affirmative action in the United States to improve the mixing up of colors and races in schools … segregation [is] nowadays much worse than it was in the 1970s.”

Carey L. Biron
بواسطة Carey L. Biron

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration last week sent a significant delegation to provide testimony to the United Nations on the United States’ progress in implementing a landmark international treaty barring racism and race-based discrimination. For two days, close to 30 representatives from 10 government agencies appeared before a U.N.

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Teachers To Gates Foundation: Stop Pushing Corporate Education Reform!

Seattle rally puts focus on how what kids need for authentic learning is absent from corporate-driven policies.

Andrea Germanos
بواسطة Andrea Germanos

A group of teachers is holding a rally Thursday evening in Seattle to denounce education reform measures they say have been an attack on public education and let corporate interests and high-stakes testing trump real student learning. The target of their protest: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, whom the teachers say has used its monetary

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Oklahoma, South Carolina Join In Rejection Of Common Core

Supporting or rejecting the Common Core State Standards is turning out to be a volatile campaign issue in this midterm election cycle.

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese
Arne Duncan

Since the introduction of the Common Core State Standards Initiative in 2010, there has been a crusade of sorts toward its repeal. But now, support for the Common Core is increasingly becoming a campaign issue. Although Common Core is a voluntary initiative undertaken by states and there is no law, statute or mandate on the federal level

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New Orleans Now Home To First All-Charter School District In Country

The shutdowns moved forward despite opposition from local communities.

Sarah Lazare
بواسطة Sarah Lazare
Eric Holder, Arne Duncan

New Orleans is now home to the first and only school district in the United States that is all-charter. The Recovery School District on Wednesday shuttered its last remaining traditional public school, meaning that almost all New Orleans schools are now privatized. The shutdowns moved forward despite opposition from local

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Black And Hispanic Students Punished More Severely Than White Counterparts

The data are clear: Black and Hispanic students are punished more often and more severely than their White counterparts. Less clear, however, is why this is or how to fix it.

Matthew Heller
بواسطة Matthew Heller
School Weapons

LOS ANGELES --- Amid increasing concern over racial disparities in the administration of student discipline in America's schools, many have pointed to the racial bias of school officials to account for the disparities. “[I]n our investigations we have found cases where African-American students were disciplined more harshly and more frequently

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