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 [...]
By Reilly Morse | Originally Published at American Prospect. July 3, 2014 Photograph; Student civil rights activists join hands and sing as they prepare to leave Ohio to register black voters in Mississippi. The 1964 voter registration campaign was known as Freedom Summer. [Credit: PRNewsFoto/Newseum, Ted Polumbaum [...]
Photograph; Members of the University of California, Merced, Class of 2009 listen as first lady Michelle Obama delivers the commencement speech on May 16, 2009. | David Paul Morris/Getty Images By Erin C.J. Robertson | Originally Published at The Root. June 26, 2014 12:01 PM Six years [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. June 26, 2014 Early and often, the Obama administration’s education agenda, headed by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, has driven the public narrative about public schools, teachers, and students with a relentless claim [...]
By Elaine Weiss and Emma García | Originally Published at Economic Policy Institute. June 25, 2014 Growing up black or Hispanic in the United States today means high odds of living in concentrated poverty: in neighborhoods in which at least 40 percent of the residents are poor. [...]
Photograph; Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 1976 (Credit; Alex Webb/Magnum Photos) We can change the brain, through more than education. Nurturing, studies suggest, is a far more powerful medicine. The research replicated reveals that compassion can ameliorate the burdensome conditions that poverty brings, if we consider…. Inequality Begins at [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. June 12, 2014 [Reposting from Truthout as a response to the Vergaras ruling in California to dismantle tenure. See also Adam Bessie's A Tale of Two Vergaras: Of Stardom and the End of Teacher Tenure.] [...]
By Roger Cohen | The New York Times. May 29, 2014 LONDON — Guildhall at the heart of the City can be a lulling sort of place after a long day. The statuary and vaulted timber ceiling of the medieval great hall lead the eye to wander [...]
Photograph; Atlantic Author Ta-Nehisi Coates and Joy Reid walk and talk about the competition that we see in society and in our schools. By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. May 29, 2014 You may have read or heard about The Atlantic article, The Case [...]
