Technology, poverty and violence are major factors in reducing the amount of playtime young children experience, according to Dr. Dorothy Sluss, professor of elementary and
Category: educational activism
Play is a Serious Topic
Play is crucial in child development, educational growth, and brain development, according to current research. But academics continue to crowd out play within primary grades,
Memory of an Education Advocate
Janet M. Myers is remembered this week in the DC-area education community as a tireless advocate for schools and youth. Ms. Myers passed away on
Time for Artful Resistance, PLUS: Updates on Mayoral Control, Consolidations
I became a teacher to build a better world, a world where people matter. But I’ve lost myself in the maze of NCLB graphite circles
Education as a Civil Right, Limits of School ‘Choice’
Denisha Jones, Howard University professor and activist, and Brian Jones (no relation), education advocate and author, discuss education as a civil right and the limits
Liberate or Domesticate? A conversation on segregation & civil rights, schools & purpose
Dr. Jesse Turner, Director of the Central Connecticut State University Literacy Center and leader in the Save Our Schools contingent, “50th Anniversary March for Civil
Education Town Hall Forum 