Skip to main contentRemainders: On MLK Day, ideas for teaching and creating equity
By | January 19, 2011, 1:17am UTC - Schools are more segregated now than they were when Martin Luther King died. (Dana Goldstein)
- Spending MLK Day in service is like reforming schools without addressing equity issues. (Sara Mead)
- Maybe students should learn less about King and more about everyday heroes. (Rick Hess Straight Up)
- Or maybe the best way to honor King’s legacy is to spend the day in class. (Starting an Ed School)
- Leonie Haimson: Class size and segregation rise and fall in tandem. (NYC Public School Parents)
- Alexander Russo lays out a case against reauthorizing NCLB now. (This Week in Education)
- Sergio Hernandez digs up reporters’ emails during the early days of Cathie Black. (Village Voice)
- The DOE is okay with prudent teacher-bloggers, which is good since they have a lot to say. (City Room)
- Black’s demeanor today shows she may be a more reserved chancellor than Klein. (Gotham Gazette)
- Just three schools sent all of this year’s Intel Science Search finalists. (NYC Public School Parents)
- When students directed a play, both turmoil and learning ensued, Kate Quarfordt writes. (GS Community)
- Yes, heart surgeons get fired if they’re bad, but not if a few patients die — that’s expected. (Deven Black)
- A study by a founder of the Research Alliance finds students don’t learn much in college. (AtlanticWire)
- Miss Brave is having a really hard year, and it’s not her students’ fault. (Miss Brave Teaches NYC)
- There are many ways for parents to get involved, even if not many do. (Insideschools)
- Teachers and alums are trying to preserve archives about Bronx high schools as they close. (Edwize)
- A polemic against two spaces after a period (a convention that’s just ugly). (Slate)