By Michael Finn and Michael Jones. As it has every fall since it opened in 1931, the stately campus of John Marshall High in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz sits ready for the upcoming school year: new classes, new students, new hopes, new challenges. We’ve witnessed this cycle for over 20 years, as …
“It always seems impossible until it is done.” ~Nelson Mandela By Deb Escobar, Lorri Gumanow, Lisa Kollmer, and Lily Alayne Owen. Refuse the Test Robocall Committee: Katherine Brezler, Deb Escobar, Lorri Gumanow, Lisa Kollmer, and Lily Alayne Owen, along with several other education activists, parents, and …
By Anonymous Actual Teacher (AAT), Maryland, Feb. 10, 2015 Does everyone remember having to deal with spoiled classmates or spoiled kids in the neighborhood when they were younger? Maybe other parents looked the other way when the little angel would throw a fit to get her way. Well, we hope you can use that …
“Remember that fear is natural, but there is greater fear in knowing what will happen if we don’t take a stand.” – Jia Lee The following is a War Report on Public Education and Living in Dialogue exclusive interview with Jia Lee. By Lucianna Sanson. Jia Lee, a special …
By Nancy E. Bailey. Response to Intervention (RTI), the program to identify children with learning disabilities early, was recently described by the Chalkbeat in Tennessee as having problems with implementation. In many places, like Tennessee, RTI has replaced —a model which has been used for years to identify …
