Photograph Credit: Chicago Parent By Bree Ervin | Originally Published at Everyday Feminism and re-published at EmpathyEducates with their permission. August 23, 2014. “I don’t see color — I just see people.” “I want to raise my children to treat everyone the same.” “If we stopped pointing [...]
What have we done to our children? We express distress over their education. All those tests, a standardized curriculum. Our schools are "failing," or so some say and charter schools are scamming in countless ways. We try to opt out
Ferguson's Schools Are Just as Troubling as Its Police Force and The City Won't Heal Until We Fix Them Too. By Tracey Meares | Originally Published at The New Republic. August 22, 2014 A day after his visit to Ferguson, Missouri, Attorney General Eric H. Holder stated [...]
Colorblind...People are just people.” ”I don’t see color.” ”We’re all just human.” Source; Atlanta Black Star By Anat Shenker-Osorio | Originally Published at Blue Nation Review. August 21, 2014 Among the many more serious horrors of Ferguson telecasting America’s racism, we’re treated to white people’s inability to [...]
Beyond Ferguson there are countless race-related conversations. We are also talking about the police. When the two come together…Well, what do you think? A White Sheriff, His Black Son…What might the two say when they sit down to dinner? Race. Justice. Might a kitchen table conversation help [...]
Irene Robinson expressed her desire to take her grandchildren to Anthony Overton Elementary School again, The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) district decided to shutter the building for good in 2014. Overton Elementary, at 221 E. 49th St. in the Bronzeville neighborhood, is one of 50 schools the [...]
'We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.'Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. By Nekima Levy-Pounds, Esq. | Originally Published at Nekima Levy-Pounds
"To teach is to learn twice."~ Joseph Joubert (Moralist. Essayist) What is education? Is it testing? Teaching? Is it the Common Core Curriculum? Is it the possibility of opting-out? Is education the search for wisdom? And what about the children? Where might they be in [...]
I wrote this article in 2008 and am saddened that it is something I will be teaching again this school year, with another name added to the list. Educators, I encourage you to address this in your classrooms—regardless if you teach children of color or not. Please [...]
