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The Impact of Poverty on Schools
Lynne Varner, in her Seattle Times opinion blog, weighs in on the pressing debate about poverty’s effects on how well students learn. For teachers, the question is not only a mechanical one guiding the kinds of tools and techniques they’ll use in the classroom but a question that can impact their careers. As school districts…
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The Death Penalty: Are We Getting It Right?
Lynne K. Varner writes in her Seattle Times opinion column that Troy Davis’ death was such a gross miscarriage of justice that it only strengthens calls for abolishing the death penalty. Davis was executed despite scant forensic evidence and recantations of most of the eyewitnesses. The idea of Georgia inmate Troy Davis lying on a…
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'No Child Left Behind' Reformed to Help States
In her Seattle Times opinion column, Lynne K. Varner applauds President Barack Obama’s education-reform measure, saying that it injects flexibility into “No Child Left Behind,” which was too narrowly crafted by his Republican predecessor. Do you know how to tell Election Day is drawing near? Conservatives step up their lament about the federal role in…
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Adding Color to the Education-Reform Debate
In a blog entry at the Seattle Times, columnist Lynne K. Varner urges people of color to get involved in the education-reform debate because it is their children who are most likely to be affected by state education-budget cuts. My latest column encourages people of color to engage in the education reform debate. While I…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
