Photograph Credit Chris Hondros/Getty By Conor P. Williams | Originally Published at The Daily Beast. March 31, 2014 New York schools are the most segregated in the country according to a new study, but blaming charter schools, which only serve 6% of city students, won’t fix the [...]
Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Published at EmpathyEducates. March 31, 2014 In New Jersey, the Governor spends one million in taxpayer dollars for "full vindication;" yet there is nothing for education. In Kansas, legislators debate whether a teacher can spank, but as far as the [...]
Photograph; (Courtesy of Steven Depolo, CC BY 2.0) By Mychal Denzel Smith | Originally Published at The Nation. March 28, 2014 - 2:46 PM ET The school-to-prison pipeline, to my mind, is the most insidious arm of this country's prison-industrial complex. Under the guise of protecting our [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. Matrch 28, 2014 With Waiting for excuses for the inexcusable, Leonard Pitts Jr. offers us all a watershed moment—one that involves reclaiming the language and the narratives in order to take direct action against the [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Educational Opportunity Network. March 26, 2014 | Photographic Credit; ShutterStock America was shocked, shocked, by new data from the U.S. Department of Education last week showing that a child’s education destiny in the nation’s public schools is strongly determined by [...]
Study: NY Schools Most Segregated In America By Lilly Workneh | Originally Published at The Grio. March 26, 2014 at 12:30 PM Minorities are likely to become the majority population in America in less than three decades – and yet, with this soon-to-be expected reality, [...]
Kiese Laymon, Author of 'Long Division,' Speaks Up for Black Boys and Girls By Jarvis DeBerry | Originally Published at The Times-Picayune. March 25, 2014 at 4:57 PM, updated March 25, 2014 at 4:58 PM [See and Hear Interview Below] When Kiese Laymon, a novelist and essayist [...]
Towards Achievement with Integrity By Dennis Shirley | Originally Published at Worlds of Education Volume 43 - Apr 2014 March 25, 2014 | Download [pdf] Image by World Bank Photo Collection via Flickr On the other hand, cheek by jowl with these impressive achievements, age-old [...]
By Leo Davis | Originally Published at Atlanta Black Star. March 24, 2014 Misreported Statistics Used to Reinforce Black Men as Violent One statistic commonly misused by a misleading media is: 49% of murder victims are black men. 93% of those are killed by other blacks. However, [...]
