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Teacher put on leave over Facebook photo controversy
Former McCollum High School dance teacher Cassandra Rios had been on leave from the Harlandale Independent School District for seven months. Rios was placed on paid administrative leave in late July,...
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Opinion: The trouble with choosing the right school for your kids
In his revealing book “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010,” Charles Murray spends hundreds of pages using statistics to illustrate the rising inequality that is increasingly putting...
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Opinion: Education that’s not to the point
CHICAGO — My belief that the PowerPoint presentation is the worst thing that ever happened to modern education was verified a few months ago while I was observing a training session on the art of...
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Opinion: For first generation students, few miracles
Twenty-one years ago this month, my parents drove 332 miles to drop me off at a college campus none of us had ever set foot on. Amazingly — and despite many fears — two strict, traditionally minded...
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Urban Baby Blog: Gearing up for homeschool adventures
The weather is getting cooler, the school year is starting, and moms around the country are getting ready to send their little ones to preschool for the first time. Except me. Adi isn’t going to...
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Opinion: Tucson, Arizona schools deport Mexican-American writers from...
Warning. This post contains mind-altering thoughts banned in Arizona. It’s always banned book week for Mexican Americans. However, Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) officials wanted to make this...
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In Chicago, Latino families react to new school safety measures
CHICAGO, IL – On the second day of school last week, Susana Salgado and Octavio Barajas walked their 8-year-old son from James Otis Elementary along the new Safe Passage route in Chicago’s West Town...
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Reflections: My Friend Osama, And Me
When I was in high school I was friends with a boy named Osama. We sat next to each other in Biology class. We had the same guidance counselor. He happened to be Palestinian, and Muslim, but nobody...
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Opinion: Training teachers to fight back
Every once in a while, horrifying violence rocks our national sense of school campus innocence. It’s cold comfort, but chances are our local school’s staff has been trained to respond in the most...
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Veteran educator, Carmen Farina, appointed next chancellor of NYC school system
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio appointed veteran New York City educator Carmen Farina, a 70-year-old former teacher and principal and a longtime advocate of early childhood education, as the next...
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