All of us might recall our history, in part. We remember Martin Luther King Junior delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech on Lincoln Mall. While we may not have been there on that momentous day, we have read accounts, seen footage, or perhaps have spoken [...]
Philly Schools Consider Suing Wall Street Banks For Fraud-Induced Losses By Daniel Denvir | Originally Published at City Paper. August 5, 2013 The School District of Philadelphia is considering filing suit against Wall Street banks, City Paper has learned, for illegally manipulating a major interest-rate index underpinning [...]
Introduction On the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in April 1968, Jane Elliott's third graders from the small, all-white town of Riceville, Iowa, came to class confused and upset. They recently had made King their "Hero of the Month," and they couldn't understand why [...]
So, How Will Blacks Feed Their Families? By Kathleen Cross | Originally Published at Rollng Out. July 11, 2011 You may remember the 2003 University of Chicago study by Devah Pager that sent young white and black “testers” with randomly assigned “felony convictions” to apply for [...]
Photograph; Karen Lewis, center, president of the CTU is joined by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, and United States Representative Bobby Rush, right, during a demonstration and march over the a plan to close fifty-four Chicago Public Schools through Chicago's downtown Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles [...]
Dearest Rachel… Hi. It is me, Betsy. I am writing to say Congratulations to you and all Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Americans. It has been a great week for all our LBGTQ brethren. Sadly, it is a little less so [...]
The last day of school is usually one in which students and parents rejoice. It is thought of as a reprise, a temporary break taken before we come together again in the fall of the year. Never do we imagine that when school closes for the summer [...]
By Rebecca Strauss | Originally Published at The New York Times June 16, 2013 Averages can be misleading. The familiar, one-dimensional story told about American education is that it was once the best system in the world but that now it’s headed down the drain, with piles [...]
New York Times Photograph: Amanda Lindsey, a preschool teacher at the Academy of St. Benedict the African in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, talked with Charlotte Pettigrew, 5, during breakfast there in May. By Motoko Rich |Originally published at The New York Times. June 13, 2013 CHICAGO [...]
