In the News: Neighborhood group seeks to head off CPS
The Logan Square Neighborhood Association is establishing the Logan Square School Facilities Council to make sure no closed-door decisions are made at the Board of Education about the future of Ames Middle School.
Battling the Stigma of HIV in the API Community
SAN FRANCISCO -- Seventeen years ago, Henry Ocampo did not think he would make it past his 25th birthday. A fresh graduate from the University of California, Davis, the young Filipino American was the pride and joy of his family.
None of them knew his status.
As an HIV prevention worker, Ocampo knew the risks. Although his then-partner was HIV-positive, they’d played it safe, getting tested routinely. He wasn’t worried.
Commentary: Help tackling the Common Core
Faced with the not-so-user-friendly new state standards, a literacy coach offers suggestions to daunted teachers.
Change is challenging.
Transition between the old and familiar to a new and ambiguous unknown is tough.
Just ask a literacy teacher trying to navigate the new Colorado Academic Standards.
Miami Media Roundtable on School Reform
At Miami Dade College, which also served as the host for the concluding symposium, Lenore Rodicio, Executive Director of MDC3 Student Success and Completion Initiatives, captured part of the disconnect between the expectations of parents in the NAM poll and their children’s capacity to perform academically upon graduating high school.
Brown’s Budget Cuts at Issue During World Court of Women
OAKLAND, Calif. – Latanya Wolf, a slim 64 year-old, didn’t tiptoe around the issue of cuts to services for women and families during a protest rally in Oakland last week.
“I am living on $160 a month,” Wolf asserted during the rally, held Friday. “But for the food bank, I would be starving. I am living the budget cuts, my family is living the budget cuts. My 2-year-old niece died of hunger.”
Commentary: The self-fulfilling nature of special ed
A doctoral student reflects back on her elementary school days and considers herself lucky not to have been labeled “special ed.”
