Policymakers who proclaim miraculous progress in education don't usually have their facts straight. By Elaine Weiss | Originally Published at US News. December 1, 2014 8:00 a.m. EST | Photographic Credit; Back to School. Phil Roeder at Flickr It should be clear, on its face, that “miracles” [...]
“Personal anecdotes don’t prove anything. The justice system isn’t racist. Black people are arrested more often because they commit more crime. Period. End of story.” So read the message in my inbox this morning, sent by someone who had happened across my essay about Ferguson, [...]
By Kari Harden | Originally Published at A print edition of The Louisiana Weekly, a New Orleans-based civil rights newspaper that began publishing in 1925. December 1, 2014 | Photographic Credit; Chris Granger / The Times-Picayune A new report exploring the correlation between high-risk neighborhoods and educational [...]
By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. November 28, 2014 It took seconds to end a child's life. The young boy's life could have been saved, maybe. We will never know because "civil servants," "peace officers," just waited. Cleveland officials said the police officers waited. [...]
“Watermelonism” White People I Know What You’ve Done My godmother invites me to her church in Manhattan Beach, California. The congregation is large, White, and affluent. We are the only two Black people there. There is lunch after service. Members of the congregation have [...]
"They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace." ~ Jeremiah 6:14 (NIV) After learning that the Ferguson grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting [...]
Why is it that the future of our children can only be seen as a case of "arrested development" and why is it that parents who fight for the rights of our young are repeatedly arrested? [Again!] Perhaps the answer can be found in a [...]
In the nine months since this initial report, we’ve learned a great deal more about how racial disparities animate criminal justice systems in Ferguson, Mo. and around the nation. On the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, here are just a few examples: Unarmed black men [...]
It Happened… Andrew Cuomo Was Re-elected New York Governor, but Loses Clout. Might his stance on public education be at issue? By Kevin Solari | Originally Published at Working In These Times.November 3, 2014 6:03 PM | New York's incumbent governor will likely sail to a reelection [...]
