Failure to see race correlates to a failure to see the funding crisis. The School Reality White People Cannot See is that education is not equitably funded. (Image: flickr / cc / cortonflow)By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Our Future. August 21, 2014 As the season [...]
Colorblind...People are just people.” ”I don’t see color.” ”We’re all just human.” Source; Atlanta Black Star By Anat Shenker-Osorio | Originally Published at Blue Nation Review. August 21, 2014 Among the many more serious horrors of Ferguson telecasting America’s racism, we’re treated to white people’s inability to [...]
By Ruth Conniff | Originally Published at In These Times. August 20, 2014 Once an effort to improve public education, the charter school movement has transformed into a money-making venture. There’s been a flood of local news stories in recent months about FBI raids on charter schools [...]
Irene Robinson expressed her desire to take her grandchildren to Anthony Overton Elementary School again, The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) district decided to shutter the building for good in 2014. Overton Elementary, at 221 E. 49th St. in the Bronzeville neighborhood, is one of 50 schools the [...]
'We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.'Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. By Nekima Levy-Pounds, Esq. | Originally Published at Nekima Levy-Pounds
"To teach is to learn twice."~ Joseph Joubert (Moralist. Essayist) What is education? Is it testing? Teaching? Is it the Common Core Curriculum? Is it the possibility of opting-out? Is education the search for wisdom? And what about the children? Where might they be in [...]
I wrote this article in 2008 and am saddened that it is something I will be teaching again this school year, with another name added to the list. Educators, I encourage you to address this in your classrooms—regardless if you teach children of color or not. Please [...]
Photograph; Arthur Ashe, an independent charter school in the state's Recovery School District, students prepare for LEAP exams. | Advocate staff photo By John McCusker Introductory Essay By Raynard Sanders, Ed.D., an Educator, a former John McDonogh School Principal and a New Orleans resident For years the [...]
By Janee Woods | Originally Published What Matters. August 17, 2014 | Photograph; Michael Brown | Facebook As we all know by now, Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenage boy, was gunned down by the police while walking to his grandmother’s house in the middle of the [...]
