Getty Images/The Washington Post Colorblindness! This is the Common Core that we never address. We speak about testing, and touch on arresting. Intellectually, we understand that schools are now a "pipeline to prison." Still, we want discipline at least within the curriculum…or we once did. Now we [...]
On April 29, 1992, at the Ventura County courthouse in Simi Valley, home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, a jury of ten whites, one Asian and one Latino delivered not guilty verdicts in all assault charges but one against four Los Angeles (LA) police [...]
If it takes a village to raise a child, the same village must share accountability when many children are educationally abandoned. In New York City, the nation’s largest school system, on average student outcomes and their opportunity to learn are more determined by the neighborhood [...]
Photograph; Q99.info By Liz Dwyer | Originally Published at Good. February 29, 2012 In a bold comparative analysis of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Jada Williams, a 13-year old eighth grader at School #3 in Rochester, New York, asserted that in her experience, today's [...]
In American society, we can't avoid the fact that socioeconomic disparities are racial disparities By Joe Pettit | Originally Published at The Baltimore Sun. February 22, 2012 | Photographic Credit; Chris Ryan/Getty Images Imagine a report that reached the following three conclusions: In Maryland, 35 percent [...]
By Christopher Bonastia | Originally Published at Huffington Post. January 11, 2012 12:56 PM EST | Photographic Credit; Black Educator When I tell people here in New York City -- friends, students, acquaintances, strangers who sit next to me on the train and cabdrivers who don't slide [...]
How we remember the history of school segregation can be a mystery. What we do and have done to change our history – that is the greater mystery. By Christopher Bonastia| Originally Published at Huffington Post Black Voices. January 11, 2012 When I tell people here in [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Our Future. January 6, 2012 I remember the day that the poor kids showed up at our school. It was in 1964. Classes had already started, and I was in second grade, surrounded by my familiar friends from my mostly [...]
Alexander poses a thought-provoking and insightful thesis: Mass incarceration, justified and organized around the war on drugs, has become the new face of racial discrimination in the United States. Since 1970, the number of people behind bars in this country has increased 600 percent. What [...]
