By Black&Smart, AKAdemic | Originally Published at Black&Smart July 14, 2014 There have been those times when my White brothers and sisters have suggested that my perspective couldn’t possibly be right because some other Black people didn’t hold that same view. The idea that Black people have [...]
Students do their homework during a public hearing in April on the proposal to close Dumas Technology Academy and consolidate the school with Wadsworth Elementary. The hearing was held at Chicago Public Schools headquarters. (E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune / April 25, 2013) By Eve Rips | [...]
By Black&Smart, AKAdemic | Originally Published at Black&Smart July 10, 2014 I have been studying race, racism and its damaging effects for most of my adult life. And I have witnessed the “racial fatigue” of people who don’t have to consciously deal with race. They tell me [...]
Hundreds of parents waited in lines at Lake Area School on Paris Avenue Thursday, July 10, 2014, to enroll their children in a Recovery School District school. (Photographs; by Dinah Rogers, NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune) Perhaps today, we have an opportunity to, once again, realize that Charter [...]
Photograph; Ernest Owens | Ernest Media Empire, Incorporated. By Ernest Owens | Originally Published at Huffington Post. Black Voices. July 8, 2014 5:38 PM EDT As society "progress," we have become a bunch of cultural sycophants obsessed with creating false affirmations and pseudo-solidarities. I quite frankly cannot [...]
Photograph; School Children in meal line. | Credit Reuters Adults, this may be a necessary lesson. Feed all the children for free, regardless of their family income, and you can save money and also end discrimination. The side-benefits are tremendous. The state would no longer need to [...]
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates London June 13, 2011. | Reuters/Paul Hackett The billionaire's latest little fixation is catching hell on all sides. Here's why he's better off simply moving on By Michael P. Mazenko | Originally Published at Salon. July 7, 2014 It’s hard to envision Bill [...]
What happens in each state reminds us that we are all connected. Politicians vie for elected positions and education school officials take advantageous stands. To be for or against Common Core State Standards is ever-changing. How much of this depends on who makes decisions? Is it a [...]
Photograph; Lafayette Academy, the experience of a charter group with the profit-making company it hired to manage instruction offers a cautionary tale of how well-meaning trustees can easily stumble, and of how privatizing management is often far from a panacea | Tim Mueller for The New York [...]
