Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, joins us to discuss recent developments with billionaire Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a longtime backer of charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools. DeVos said earlier this month that she wanted to return the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights “to its role as…
Journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s mother – a union Democrat who worked at the phone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night – lied about her address so Lemmon could attend a better elementary school. Lemmon talks about her own experience with school choice and why she now sees it not as an “issue,”…
Following a series of defaults on payments toward billions of dollars worth of debt, Congress last year passed a law giving a federal financial board oversight on Puerto Rico’s budget. The board has made severe cuts — closing 179 schools and taking away pensions — amid an already-dire economic crisis. And now, Puerto Ricans are…
Brooklyn, New York-based Isabella Cruz-Chong has strung a heavy gauge chain across, up, and down inside the small white art space that is C.A.C.t.T.U.S. (Creative Arts Coalition to Transform Urban Space) founded by artist Jorge Mujica. In the window of the nondescript storefront on Elm Avenue in Long Beach, one end of the chain falls…
Andrea Sulsona is the premiere guest on Voices in Our Heads, a new podcast from palaciomagazine.com. Sulsona is the Executive Director of Early Childhood Education at the Greater Long Beach YMCA. Andrea Sulsona is also the past publisher of our original namesake, Palacio De Long Beach. PalacioMagazine.com recently sat down with Andrea Sulsona in a Bixby…
Por que la gente se tiene que sentir orgullosa de sus raíces. Como los mexicanos debemos apreciar nuestra música e identidad. Le apasiona la música , primeramente la música de Mariachi, lleva 10 años estudiando violín para tocar la música de mariachi, a lo largo de los 10 años ha aprendido a tocar otros instrumentos…
Two students demonstrate part of Narrative 4’s story-sharing program, which is designed to help participants understand each other better. Read more at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/barrier-breaking-power-learning-someone-elses-story/
If you take a look at the label inside the collar of your shirt, chances are it doesn’t say “Made in the U.S.A.” That’s why cotton farmers in North Carolina are teaming up with local textile mills to produce garments that are truly homegrown. Special correspondent Jeff Sonier from PBS station WTVI shows us how…
Stan Douglas picks up where Miles Davis left off by creating the epic six-hour video “Luanda-Kinshasa” (2013). Inspired by his experience making pause-button mixtapes in the early 1980s, Douglas imagined a recording that combined elements of Davis’s last studio album from the 1970s, “On the Corner,” with Manu Dibango-inspired Afrobeat. “This is a very tenuous…
Pop culture is a great way to frame new information. And a teacher like Neil can make a huge difference. Why spend hours explaining something in great detail when you can simply use what they already know? Pop culture is a great scaffold to build and hang information off of argues Neil deGrasse Tyson. For…