Photograph; M.K. Nguyen ends the protest with a Unity Chant as groups protest on the median in front of Sarah T. Reed High School to protest school closure, Monday, December 9, 2013. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune) By Danielle Dreilinger | Originally Published atThe [...]
Principal Troy LaRaviere was one of only a few principals to speak against budget cuts announced last July. LaRaviere says under Mayor Rahm Emanuel's hand-picked schools administration, principals have been told they must voice support for policies such as the longer school day. By Linda Lutton | [...]
Photograph courtesy Peggy McIntosh. By Joshua Rothman | Originally Published at The New Yorker. May 13, 2014 The idea of “privilege”—that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren’t discriminatory —has a pretty long history. In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. [...]
Some of the students who led protests over the district’s Collegiate Academy charter schools withdrew from those schools and enrolled in Liberation Academy, founded by parents and local activists. By Jordan Flaherty| Originally Published at The Root. May 13 2014 3:00 AM Every year hundreds of young, [...]
Photograph; The petition was delivered five days before the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed school segregation. You Signed. Sealed. And Southern Poverty Law Delivered the Petition Demanding Florida Governor End State-Sponsored Discrimination Against Minority Students. [...]
By Gabriel Arana | Originally Published at The American Prospect. May 12, 2014 This article has been corrected. If left-leaning publications value diversity, why don't they have any? On the staff of The American Prospect, I’m the only member of an ethnic minority. That's not because [...]
Photograph; Roland Park Fourth-graders do classwork in their homeroom at Roland Park Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore. The school is the most racially diverse school in the most segregated school district in the state. (Kim Hairston, Baltimore Sun /May 7, 2014) 60 Years After Brown v. [...]
By Theodore R. Johnson, III | Originally Published at National Public Radio. May 11, 2014 "N*gg*r Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!" merits the distinction of the most racist song title in America. Released in March 1916 by Columbia Records, it was written by actor Harry C. [...]
The families of kindergarten teachers make less in a year than the average top 25 hedge fund manager makes in 15 minutes. Photograph; Blanton Elementary School kindergarten teacher Amy Collins, left with her class on Monday, August 20, 2012 in Lealman, Florida. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, [...]
