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By John Thompson. Diary of Some Webster Kids: Advocacy in Action is a powerful anthology written and edited by middle school English Language Learners. The first thing that jumps out of the essays is the students’ moral character and their heroism.  The second thing their writing communicates is that they are …

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By John Thompson. Diary of Some Webster Kids: Advocacy in Action was written and edited by the students.  This is the third year that middle school students have published a book. Some chose to remain completely anonymous, while others have adopted a low profile. Their book opening, at Commonplace Books, was …

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By Susan Dufresne and Anthony Cody. In the past 13 years of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top test-driven education policies, art has been pushed to the margins in our schools. Students have lost countless hours for creating art, music and dance that expresses themselves. But artistic expression is like the …

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By Anthony Cody. The last weekend of April I joined about 600 other history-makers in the great city of Chicago for the second annual conference of the Network for Public Education. It has been said that American attitudes towards education are like a pendulum, swinging from one side to another. If so, this was a …

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By Anthony Cody. This Tuesday voters in Chicago will choose between incumbent mayor Rahm Emanuel and challenger Chuy Garcia. Garcia shared his views on education here a few weeks ago, and has earned the support of most teachers and the Chicago Teachers Union. The Network for Public Education also has endorsed him. …

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By Anthony Cody. Education blogger Alexander Russo has offered an analysis of recent education journalism in a piece entitled “Common problems with Common Core reporting.” Russo hosts a blog called This Week in Education, sponsored by Scholastic corporation. Russo reached out to me for input as he was …

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By Tanaisa Brown, Secretary, Newark Students Union. We went to Cami Anderson’s office on Feb. 17 as an escalation from last Spring’s 17 hour occupation of the conference room where the Business Board Meeting was. This time, after the public participation portion of the meeting, we went to the elevator and …

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By Sarah Lahm. In the past year, from Baltimore to Philadelphia, Newark to Chicago, and California to Colorado, high school students have led the way in carrying out protests–about the intersection of education, injustice, racism, and power. This active organizing has built a foundation that could make this …