Tory Frye, NYC Public School Parents. May 18, 2012.
Parents from Williamsburg to Riverdale say the state’s high-stakes standardized testing regimen is out of control and a serious threat to their children’s education.
After helping her students reach the 98th percentile on state math tests one year, a teacher finds herself labeled an abject failure the next. Confused? You should be.
Contrary to popular belief, great teachers don't just spring from the ether. Here's the story of how a group of invested individuals helped one young teacher succeed.
Rihanna is another example of how normalized marijuana use has become in mainstream culture, but as common as pot may be, getting arrested for it is no joke.
While arrests have dropped ever so slightly since Police Commissioner Kelly issued his order, the NYPD is still using stop-and-frisk to make thousands of unwarranted pot arrests.
When I was sexually assaulted and mugged last month, I was abruptly introduced to the culture of victim blaming — from the police, and even my family and friends.
Pot arrests are highly expensive for the taxpayer, associated racial disparities are ghastly, and just to ice the cake, most of these arrests are the result of illegal searches.
Renée Feltz, Stokely Baksh, Indypendent. November 20, 2010.
The "secure communities" program is especially troubling in light of recent reports that ICE has asked for the deportation of people eligible to be in the U.S.
Now that the climate for political candidates has eased on personal drug use, we should focus on punishing elected officials who still believe in the drug war.
