By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at Clutch Magazine. July 29, 2014 Since the post Civil Rights Era, the Black community has largely abandoned its collective struggle against continued racism and discrimination. Gone are the demands for justice and an end to inequality. They have been replaced [...]
Photograph; Credit Beth Fertig / SchoolBook By Allie Gross | Jacobin. July 28, 2014In Detroit charter schools, mismanagement and opportunistic “education entrepreneurs” thrive. Jenay* crouches on the carpet, her spine curved into a lowercase “c” as she concentrates on the flimsy picture book in [...]
(Photograph Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) By William A. Darity Jr., Alan A. Aja, , Darrick Hamilton | Originally Published at Huffington Post. July 28, 2014 5:04 PM Updated 5:59 PM EDT Earlier this month a divided Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the University of Texas' right [...]
A crowd of about 50 showed up for the charter board meeting. photo: Della Hasselle Introductory Essay By Raynard Sanders, Ed.D., an Educator, a former John McDonogh School Principal and a New Orleans resident The failure of the corporate education reforms in New Orleans has been clearly [...]
By John Fitzgerald Gates, Ph.D. | Originally Published at Huffington Post Business. July 24, 2014 12:49 pm EDT It has been said, "diversity management is a racket." Regrettably, there is a great deal of truth in this statement. In fact, "diversity management" has become a thriving industry [...]
Parents and advocates gather at Newark City Hall after U.S. Department of Education opened a civil rights investigation into the city's school reorganization plan. By Peggy McGlone | Originally Published at New Jersey Dot Com. - The Star-Ledger. July 24, 2014 at 6:00 AM, updated July 24, [...]
I received a call from my sons’ school in March telling me that my oldest needed to be picked up early. He had been given a one-day suspension because he had thrown a chair. He did not hit anyone, but he could have, the school [...]
Greetings and Salutations! We haven’t met yet, but we will meet soon. I need to apologize in advance because I am going to be one of “those” parents. You know, the ones who are constantly checking in, perhaps over protective to a fault. In my [...]
It's hard to say exactly how many of Ellis Island's child migrants were unaccompanied, but a leading historian says they were in the several thousands. National Archives By Tasneem Raja | Originally Published at Mother Jones. July 18, 2014 6:00 AM EDT And no, we didn't just [...]
