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 [...]
Are we measuring basic facts about children? Or basic facts about rich kids? Developmental Psychology’s Weird Problem Courtesy of Shutterstock By Jane Hu | Originally Published at Slate. June 25, 2014 7:09 AM Living in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past few years, I’ve gotten [...]
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. [...]
By Eddie S. Glaude Jr | Originally Published at The New York Times. Updated; June 23, 2014 2:16 PM | Photographic Credit; Residents of the historically African-American neighborhood of Harlem. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Black academics don’t have a “special obligation” to speak to [...]
By Michael Holzman, Guest Blogger and Presented By - Eric J. Cooper | Originally Published at Huffington Post. June 19, 2014 1:18 pm EDT Updated: June 19, 2014 5:59 am EDT In this piece, the author of the heralded Schott Foundation's report on African-American male achievement, weighs [...]
Tenure is Not the ProblemTeacher protections are not why poor schools are failing. Segregation is. By Richard D. Kahlenberg | Originally Published at Slate. June 13, 2014 On Tuesday, a California court struck down state teacher tenure and seniority protections as a violation of the [...]
Americans, for decades now, have aspired to be colorblind, just not completely. Oh we long to see pretty pink crocuses and yellow daffodils flowers bloom in the spring. We want to walk through tall green grasses and bathe in the bright sun. We want to wear colorful [...]
"What's going on?" (Marvin Gaye) "Like Genocide, So Econocide" (Alice Skirtz) Every once in a while in the sea of intellectual discourse a term surfaces that resonates, that galvanizes the historical moment, that has gravitas. Stokely Carmichael's "Black Power" was one of those terms. [...]
Originally Published at ViceNews. June 5, 2014 1:00 PM There's an epidemic of PTSD in American cities, and it has nothing to do with the wars being fought abroad. Homegrown violence and a sense of impunity in America's urban war zones are leaving thousands of teenagers with [...]
