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VideoNation’s Report Card on Schools: Needs Improvement
by Michelle Chen on March 26 2010, 7:24PM
Two dramas played out in the education system this week. While New York activists scored a court ruling barring the closure of 19 “underperforming” schools, Washington mulled over the latest national report card in reading and math. The results of…
Topics: Schools & Youth
College Students Need Government Aid More Than Sallie Mae Does
by Julianne Hing on March 24 2010, 5:17PM
Visual design: Hatty Lee Check out our past coverage to see what else you can look forward to when SAFRA becomes law. It is expected to pass when the Senate votes later this week on the reconciliation bill, but student…
Topics: Schools & Youth
School Grounds as Battlefield: Political Lessons at an Arabic-themed School
by Michelle Chen on March 19 2010, 2:41PM
In 2007, New York City public schools were poised to break new cultural ground. The city established the Khalil Gibran International Academy, a comprehensive public school specializing in the Arabic language. The grade 6-12 school, the first of its…
Topics: Schools & Youth
Obama’s No Child Left Behind: New Name, Same Sketchy Policies
by Julianne Hing on March 16 2010, 4:37PM
This past Saturday the Obama administration released its plan for the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind, which is hereafter to be referred to by its new—well, make that old—name as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. ESEA was originally…
Topics: Schools & Youth
NCAA Champions But College Dropouts? 80 Percent of Black B-Ball Athletes Won’t Graduate
by Hatty Lee on March 16 2010, 4:02PM
With March Madness starting this week, The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, at the University of Central Florida released “Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates for 2010 NCAA Men’s Divsion I Basketball Tournament Teams.” This study compares…
Topics: Schools & Youth, Sports
Community College Funds, Pell Grants Getting Cut In Last Days of Student Loan Reform Fight
by Julianne Hing on March 15 2010, 3:30PM
In the span of a week, the student loan reform bill (commonly known as SAFRA) was alive, then nearly killed, and then quickly revived. Credit’s being given to folks around the country who jammed their senators’ phone lines and put…
Topics: Schools & Youth
The Morning Browse: Big Stuff in Today’s News
by Kai Wright on March 15 2010, 6:00AM
President Obama discusses his blueprint for an updated Elementary and Secondary Education Act to overhaul No Child Left Behind. Clarence Thomas’ wife is holding her own Tea Party. The LA Times profiles an effort she launched in January to…
Topics: Economy, Media, Race and Recession, Schools & Youth
by Michelle Chen on March 13 2010, 8:38PM
Rewriting history sounds like a daunting task, but an elite group of educational “experts” in Texas makes it look easy. In the Lone Star State, all you need to dictate education policy is an abiding faith in dead white men,…
Topics: History, Immigration, Politics, Schools & Youth
Democrats Who Oppose Student Loan Reform Love Banks More Than They Care About Students
by Julianne Hing on March 11 2010, 11:15AM
Time’s running out for student loan reform, and it’s being held up by Democrats in Congress. CBS is reporting that some nine senators currently oppose SAFRA, the student loan reform bill that would replace government subsidies of private (and predatory)…
Topics: Schools & Youth
Anarchists Draw Heat After CA Student Walk-Outs
by Jamilah King on March 5 2010, 2:58PM
The fallout from yesterday’s massive student protests in California continues. After a day of mostly peaceful rallies and demonstrations, the scene took a violent turn in Oakland when a group of about over a hundred protestors marched onto the…
Topics: Schools & Youth
White House To Invest $850 Million For Black Colleges And Universities
by Jorge Rivas on March 2 2010, 11:02AM
An 8 person drumline from Virginia State University plays in the Cross Hall of the White House before an event honoring Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Executive Order 12232, which established a federal…
Topics: Schools & Youth
Moving On Up and Hitting a Wall: Social Mobility in the U.S. and Europe
by Michelle Chen on February 10 2010, 8:28PM
America: land of opportunity… if you’re lucky enough to be born into one. The crumbling of the American Dream is in plain view across the country, especially in the urban centers and desolate ghost towns that have long been…
Topics: Economy, Global Affairs, Schools & Youth
Sex Ed Wars Continue in Communities of Color
by Michelle Chen on February 10 2010, 5:02PM
For the past several days, reproductive health advocates have been wrestling with something of a sexual counterrevolution. A new study appears to support abstinence-based sexuality education, which, on the surface, may undercut the case for comprehensive sex-ed, which focuses on…
Topics: Schools & Youth
Racial Divide Grows with Charter Schools Across the Country
by Jorge Rivas on February 5 2010, 9:34AM
The Los Angeles Unified School District has more charters schools than any other school district in the country. Charter schools in L.A tend to serve underrepresented communities which are often either Black, Latino or Asian. This results in schools whose…
Topics: Schools & Youth
Hard Knocks: NYC Shuts School Doors on Struggling Students
by Michelle Chen on January 28 2010, 6:57PM
Across New York City, schools are flunking out, and the Mayor’s office is happy to see them go. In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, a contentious all-night meeting ended with the result everyone expected: the city’s Panel for Educational…
Topics: Schools & Youth
One in Four Black, Latino Workers Shut Out of Withered Job Market
by Michelle Chen on January 8 2010, 11:51PM
The new labor statistics released today show more of the same: official unemployment was about level. Some economists insist that we’re still on track for a steady recovery; left-leaning analysts like the Economic Policy Institute say the hole is much…
Topics: Economy, Schools & Youth
Schwarzenegger Calls For…What Was that? More Education Spending!
by Julianne Hing on January 6 2010, 6:11PM
Okay, so California’s action hero governor also called for an overhaul of the tax and pension systems and demanded more privately run prisons in his state of the state address today. These moves toward privatization will surely not be good…
Topics: Politics, Schools & Youth
Classroom as Hostile Territory: Stopping School “Push Out”
by Michelle Chen on December 5 2009, 9:40AM
Schools are supposed to offer children in struggling communities a pathway to better prospects, but they’re increasingly becoming instruments of exclusion. A coalition civil rights and community groups has launched a national campaign against school “push out.” It’s a…
Topics: Criminal Justice, Schools & Youth
A Public Education: The Best Money Can Buy, If You Can Afford It
by Hatty Lee on December 2 2009, 6:19PM
The music, the slow motion effects, the last glance from the student leaving her dorm room… I’ll admit it, I got a little choked up at the end of this video. Made by students at UC San Diego, their…
Topics: Schools & Youth
Who Raises Tuition by 32%? A Look at UC Regents
by Jorge Rivas on November 24 2009, 10:19AM
Last week we wrote about the 32% tuition hike for University of California(U.C.) students. Ever wonder who’s deciding how much tuition should be? The University is governed by “The Regents,” which under the California Constitution has “full powers of organization…
Topics: Schools & Youth
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