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The Jose Vilson | Educator – Writer – Activist – Father. Thurgood Marshall Today, ProPublica released a special report on their website dedicated to the resegregation of America’s public schools. With the 60th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision on May 17th approaching, ProPublica has focused this special section on Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where three separate and equally devastating stories will be told as case studies to highlight the effects of “letting” dreams of integration die on their own. Unfortunately, progress never just dies on its own, and in this case, it’s not completely unintentional. In fact, I also believe we’ve made the race problem in our public schools far too distant from us to truly to see it as a local as well as a national problem.

For instance, if you took a guess as to which states had the highest rates of segregation in the country, you might assume it would be somewhere in the Southeast. The problem is: it’s not just there. But if you’re still not convinced, that’s OK. Jose. The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino English Teacher. Why new Barack Obama Chicago public high school is unjust Today, Chicago Public Schools and Mayor Emanuel announced a new selective-enrollment high school on the near North side of Chicago. The new school—which will only accept students based on high test scores—will be built on Chicago Park District property near Halsted and Division: prime city real estate.

The new school will likely be named after... Read more » Chicago Public Schools teacher blogger nominated for national award I tell my students to advocate for themselves—so I’m going to do the same. Because of my blog, this Chicago Public Schools teacher earned a nomination for the national Education Commentator / Blogger Award at the 2014 Annual Bammy Awards, an event organized by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. If CNN's Chicagoland profiled this Chicago Public Schools teacher I watched episodes 2, 3, and 4 of CNN’s original series Chicagoland with disappointment.

Teachers should not be Facebook friends with students. 2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths About Foreign Aid - Gates Foundation. More and more, technology will help in the fight against corruption. The Internet is making it easier for citizens to know what their government should be delivering—like how much money their health clinic should get—so they can hold officials accountable. As public knowledge goes up, corruption goes down, and more money goes where it’s supposed to.

Aid Dependence Another argument from critics is that aid holds back normal economic development, keeping countries dependent on generosity from outsiders. This argument makes several mistakes. First, it lumps different kinds of aid together. Second, the “aid breeds dependency” argument misses all the countries that have graduated from being aid recipients, and focuses only on the most difficult remaining cases.

Even in sub-Saharan Africa, the share of the economy that comes from aid is a third lower now than it was 20 years ago, while the total amount of aid to the region has doubled. All My Faves | My Homepage. Book Country: Discover New Fiction with the Genre Map. Publishers, booksellers, and readers describe books by their literary categories, or genres. It's how books are placed in stores and sold online. We created the Genre Map to help you find the right genre for your book.

Roll over the map with your cursor to see the different genres. Some categories, such as women's fiction, stand alone. Please contact us if there's a category you'd like to see on the Genre Map. Bbc. News Archive Search. The Independent | News | UK and Worldwide News | Newspaper. Home. Education Week American Education News Site of Record.

Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com. The New Yorker.