Expand the School to Prison Pipeline Conversation to Include Black Girls
By Monique Morris | Originally Published at Open Society. October 5, 2012 |
Charges of Bias in Admission Test Policy at Eight Elite Public High Schools
Photograph; The Bronx High School of Science is one of eight schools in New York for which a shared exam is the sole criterion for entrance. A federal complaint regarding this policy was filed on Thursday. By Al Baker | Originally Published The New York Times. September [...]
Colorblindness; The Un-Common Core
Getty Images/The Washington Post Colorblindness! This is the Common Core that we never address. We speak about testing, and touch on arresting. Intellectually, we understand that schools are now a "pipeline to prison." Still, we want discipline at least within the curriculum…or we once did. Now we [...]
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Rodney King Is Dead, but Little Else Has Changed Since the Riots That Bore His Name GalleryRodney King Is Dead, but Little Else Has Changed Since the Riots That Bore His Name
Civil and Human Rights, Democracy, Editorial, Equality/Equity, Federal/State/Local Regulations, Mass Incarceration, Racial Socioeconomic Relations, Safety/Violence, Tolerance/Humanization
Rodney King Is Dead, but Little Else Has Changed Since the Riots That Bore His Name
On April 29, 1992, at the Ventura County courthouse in Simi Valley, home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, a jury of ten whites, one Asian and one Latino delivered not guilty verdicts in all assault charges but one against four Los Angeles (LA) police [...]
Why Education Inequality Persists — and How To Fix It
If it takes a village to raise a child, the same village must share accountability when many children are educationally abandoned. In New York City, the nation’s largest school system, on average student outcomes and their opportunity to learn are more determined by the neighborhood [...]
Spanking Lives On As Does the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Photograph; The wooden paddle sits on the principal's desk at Sneads High School in Jackson County, Florida. In 2009, Florida embraced a rigorous policy – Corporal punishment is good; it keeps young children in school and far from the juvenile justice system. "This legislation [SB 1540 pdf] [...]
A 13-Year-Old’s Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School
Photograph; Q99.info By Liz Dwyer | Originally Published at Good. February 29, 2012 In a bold comparative analysis of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Jada Williams, a 13-year old eighth grader at School #3 in Rochester, New York, asserted that in her experience, today's [...]
How Different Do Schools Look Today 50 Years After Desegregation Closed County Public Schools?
By Christopher Bonastia | Originally Published at Huffington Post. January 11, 2012 12:56 PM EST | Photographic Credit; Black Educator When I tell people here in New York City -- friends, students, acquaintances, strangers who sit next to me on the train and cabdrivers who don't slide [...]
“The Struggle for Racial Integration is Neither Bygone Nor Exclusively Southern”
How we remember the history of school segregation can be a mystery. What we do and have done to change our history – that is the greater mystery. By Christopher Bonastia| Originally Published at Huffington Post Black Voices. January 11, 2012 When I tell people here in [...]