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The Loughner Double Standard

Guest blogger Beth Winegarner writes about teens, culture, and music.In one of a handful of videos Jared Lee Loughner posted on YouTube, a man cloaked in brown burns the American flag while Drowning...

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Education Buzzword Explainer: What the Heck Is Social Capital?

Let's face it: Jargon happens. And in education circles, it happens a lot. Curious what an education buzzword actually means? Or how a seemingly unrelated business concept migrated into discussions...

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Education Quote of the Week: Arne Duncan on No Child Left Behind

Here's Education Secretary Arne Duncan on the widely expected overhaul of the nine-year-old No Child Left Behind Act, formally called the Education Elementary and Secondary Education Law, as quoted by...

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Does Islamophobia Increase Hate Crimes for Others?

In a new interview with Katie Couric as part of her 1-hour @KatieCouric show, NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says that incidents targeting Muslims on on the rise in the US. "I think Islamophobia is on...

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Pedro's Scars

Editors' Note: This education dispatch is part of an ongoing series reported from Mission High School, where education writer Kristina Rizga is embedded for the year. Click here to see all of MoJo's...

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Education Roundup: Armed Teachers?

This week's roundup is brought to you by the buzzword "social capital." Click here to learn what it really means.Guns in Los Angeles schools permeated education news this week. Why? Well, first two...

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The Onion News Network: Cable News Gone Rogue

Does the world need another inane, dubiously sourced, and paranoid cable news channel? Yes, please! In what began as occasional fake news riffs online, the Onion News Network promises“9 billion viewers...

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RJD2 is Not Guilty

On stage, Ramble John Krohn (a.k.a. RJD2) has an ability to entrance his audience into a sea of synchronized hand-waves and head-bopping. The vinyl-scratching, mass-Tweeting, Ohio-raised DJ started...

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Sam Cooke's Wild Side

Sam CookeLive at the Harlem Square Club, 1963RCAEighty years ago last Saturday, Sam Cooke was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He started out as a gospel singer, and when he switched to recording...

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Compton's "Parent Trigger" Education Fight Heats Up

Looks like the "parent-trigger law" debate is heating up between Compton' pro-charter parents and the Compton Unified School District.If you haven't been following the news out of Compton, last month I...

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Compton's "Parent-Trigger" Update: Read the Compton School District's Letter...

Last night, I asked Parent Revolution to sendme a copy of the letter that the Compton Unified School District mailed out to parents of students at McKinley Elementary School. Compton Unified printed...

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Bryan Fischer, Basketball Analyst

American Family Association issues director Bryan Fischer is what we in the blogging business like to call a "generalist." In just the last year, he's called for the public stoning of a killer whale,...

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Zaire Paige and Others Who Roughed Their Way to Hollywood

In Hollywood, it takes a gangster to play a gangster. Zaire Paige, the 21-year-old who recently scored a role alongside Richard Gere and Don Cheadle in the new-release Brooklyn's Finest, hung out with...

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Education Roundup: More Segregation, Science Fails, and the State of the Union

[UPDATE: BlackAmericaWeb.com reports that Kelley Williams-Bolar will get to keep her public school assistant job, despite having two felonies on her record. Meanwhile, bloggers are asking whether...

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Closing the Achievement Gap, One 'A' at a Time

Editors' Note: This education dispatch is part of an ongoing series reported from Mission High School, where education writer Kristina Rizga is embedded for the year. Click here to see all of MoJo's...

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Happy Fred Korematsu Day

Mother Jones'guest blogger Angilee Shah is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist who writes about globalization and politics. You can read more of her work at www.angileeshah.com.This weekend,...

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Gang of Four Finds Its Rare Essence

Circa 1979, on the recommendation of a nerdy record-store clerk, I bought a rust-colored LP called Entertainment!, the debut full-length from the British group Gang of Four. I was immediately...

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In Egypt and Beyond, Democracy Through...Soccer?

At Sports Illustrated, Dave Zirin analyzes the role of Egypt's "most organized, militant" soccer clubs in organizing opposition to the Mubarak government. He quotes Egyptian  blogger Alaa Abd El...

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The Hook Up: Relationship Advice For the Gases

Have you been wondering how to help a girlfriend who has a gas problem or what to do when your partner treats you like her child? Look no further than my latest AfterEllen advice column. Excerpt:I...

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WATCH: Lazy Teenage Superheroes vs. Robot Bollywood [Videos]

Speaking of pot, the charming little stoner film embedded below brings $300 worth of special effects to a plot just a tad more absurd than Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. Though sadly lacking in...

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