By Karna Gowda Originally Published at Scientific American. August 20, 2013 This year, Mason High School was one of 50 programs in the Chicago Public School system closed permanently. This recent wave of closings is unprecedented in the city’s history, with over 1,700 faculty laid off and [...]
By Michael Tarm, Associated Press Originally Published at The San Francisco Chronicle. August 15, 2013 CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that he won't order a halt to public school closings in Chicago, a decision that followed days of sometimes emotional testimony on the issue [...]
Photo Credit: Shutterstock Are we truly post-racial or do we just posit racial realities that never were, or would have been? Let us wipe the board clean or discuss what soon may be unseen. [If you choose, after the read consider the Petiton] By Chris Partridge | [...]
In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington. (AP Photo/File) By Gary Younge | Originally Published at The Nation August 14, 2013 This article [...]
By Lindsay Dunsmuir | Originally Published at Reuters. August 8, 2013 Review the Poll; Race in America (Reuters) - About 40 percent of white Americans and about 25 percent of non-white Americans are surrounded exclusively by friends of their own race, according to an ongoing Reuters/Ipsos poll. [...]
Are liberals finally ready to oppose neoliberal education reform? By Lois Weiner | Originally Published at Jacobin Magazine. July 31, 2013 An eloquent call to “reclaim the conversation” challenges leading liberal educators to repudiate their involvement in what’s being called “corporate school reform.” We finally see liberal [...]
It begins at birth, or perhaps at conception. Some babies are conceived to parents of means. Their Moms have access to adequate health care. Prenatal preventative measures to ward off ill-health are provided. During delivery, the parents receive attention, as does the child receives. Day-care, kindergarten, and [...]
By Carmen Berkley | Originally Published at The Huffington Post. Black Voices. July 15, 2013 This past weekend, the Black Youth Project convened 100 Black youth to come up with a plan of action to uplift our voices, use our knowledge and take action within our community. [...]
Introduction On the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in April 1968, Jane Elliott's third graders from the small, all-white town of Riceville, Iowa, came to class confused and upset. They recently had made King their "Hero of the Month," and they couldn't understand why [...]
