Photo Courtesy of Don Harder, CC2.0) By Susan Eaton | The Nation. May 15, 2014 Sixty years after Brown, whiter, wealthier communities are breaking away from racially and economically diverse school districts. A new secessionist movement, anchored in the South, provides yet another reminder that “separate” [...]
By Paul Thomas | Originally Published at TruthOut. Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:02 So why do self-styled education "reformers" keep ignoring class issues? Ignoring Poverty as Education Reform As Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan represents both the discourse and policy currently driving education reform in the [...]
Generic image | THINKSTOCK By The Root Staff | Originally Published at ,/em>The Root. May 15 2014 3:00 AMUsing these common words and phrases with questionable histories just might make you sound like an accidental racist. A recent NPR story revealed the disturbing and shockingly racist origins [...]
Photograph; M.K. Nguyen ends the protest with a Unity Chant as groups protest on the median in front of Sarah T. Reed High School to protest school closure, Monday, December 9, 2013. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune) By Danielle Dreilinger | Originally Published atThe [...]
Principal Troy LaRaviere was one of only a few principals to speak against budget cuts announced last July. LaRaviere says under Mayor Rahm Emanuel's hand-picked schools administration, principals have been told they must voice support for policies such as the longer school day. By Linda Lutton | [...]
Photograph courtesy Peggy McIntosh. By Joshua Rothman | Originally Published at The New Yorker. May 13, 2014 The idea of “privilege”—that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren’t discriminatory —has a pretty long history. In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. [...]
Some of the students who led protests over the district’s Collegiate Academy charter schools withdrew from those schools and enrolled in Liberation Academy, founded by parents and local activists. By Jordan Flaherty| Originally Published at The Root. May 13 2014 3:00 AM Every year hundreds of young, [...]
Photograph; The petition was delivered five days before the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed school segregation. You Signed. Sealed. And Southern Poverty Law Delivered the Petition Demanding Florida Governor End State-Sponsored Discrimination Against Minority Students. [...]
By Gabriel Arana | Originally Published at The American Prospect. May 12, 2014 This article has been corrected. If left-leaning publications value diversity, why don't they have any? On the staff of The American Prospect, I’m the only member of an ethnic minority. That's not because [...]
