Alexander poses a thought-provoking and insightful thesis: Mass incarceration, justified and organized around the war on drugs, has become the new face of racial discrimination in the United States. Since 1970, the number of people behind bars in this country has increased 600 percent. What [...]
Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D. | Originally Published at Huffington Post. Black Voices. August 4, 2011 07:54 AM ET | Updated October 4, 2011 Black America is in crisis. In a recent study, the National Urban League reported that almost all the economic gains made by African Americans [...]
Whether you believe in resistance, activism, or just the choice to be involved and question, it is clear that youth involvement has changed over recent decades. Frequently, in schools today young Americans are required to "engage," to build a résumé, to improve their skills for a chosen [...]
By Kim Thurler | Originally Published at TuftsNow May 23, 2011 | To Read the Original Research Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing [Download pdf] MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Whites believe that they have replaced blacks as the primary victims of racial [...]
We have become accustomed to its face. We hear the phrase "school choice" and say, what does that mean; it is but a theme for those who endorse more privatization. Could it be "school choice" is not what it seems? Perhaps it is an opportunity for a [...]
We want to believe that our children's education resides in the hands of professionals. We place our confidence in our Teachers. Paid pedagogues, we think guide policy. We might never imagine that it is we who entrust our youth to profiteers; yet when confronted with the numbers [...]
New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire. By Alison Gopnik | Originally published at Slate. March 16, 2011 Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading [...]
How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? Now that you know who you are, what do you want to be? And have you traveled very far, far as the eye can see? ~The BeatlesBaby, you might not be a rich man or woman [...]
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne knows racism when he sees it, and he isn't afraid to publicly castigate the most recent agents of race hate. Horne is an outspoken opponent of racism in a state roiling with tensions about "illegal aliens" and "anchor babies." The [...]
