By Heather Ann Thompson | Originally Published at Huffington Post. September 8, 2014 5:59 AM EDT It has taken a long time, far too long, but politicians seem finally to have realized how catastrophically expensive it is for the United States to lock up more people than [...]
Illustration Copyright Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis/AP Images By Chocolate, Pomp, And Circumstance | Originally Published at Chocolate, Pomp, and Circumstances . September 14, 2014 Imagine: You’re at work. You’re scrolling through Facebook or playing Candy Crush instead of paying attention to your conference call – your boss comes into [...]
Illustration by Tara Jacoby By David J. Leonard | Originally Published at Gawker. September 13, 2014 I am an angel in this nation. And I suspect the New York Times or Fox News would remember me as an angel if I am murdered in the middle of [...]
By Janee Woods | Originally Published at AlterNet. September 12, 2014 | Image Racial Microaggressions by Kiyun, Fordham UniversityThere's a difference between feeling uncomfortable and being unsafe in black spaces. One month ago, the nation’s consciousness around race relations was awoken abruptly following the [...]
By Michelle Denise Jackson | Originally Published at For Harriet. September 11, 2014 | Photographic Credit; Shutterstock I have always been good at making people feel uncomfortable by being extremely vocal about my views on political and social issues. This has also led to quite a few [...]
Photograph; New Orleans Students. NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune archive) Introductory Reflection by Raynard Sanders, Ed.D., Host of The New Orleans Imperative The term "High Standards" is a part of the education reformer$ in Louisiana daily script. For the past nine years they have been quick to point [...]
We defer to cops even when they kill, and scapegoat schools for the ills America has given up on. This must change By Paul Rosenberg | Originally Published at Salon. September 10, 2014 | Matt Damon as Colin Sullivan in "The Departed" (Credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment Incorporated) [...]
Photograph Credit; The Times Daily, Jim Hannon By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. September 9, 2014 In my undergraduate introductory education course, I read aloud the first or second class Sandra Cisneros’s “Eleven.” The central character is Rachel, and the setting [...]
Every semester I hope things will be different. I hope that when I walk into my English-composition and writing courses, the majority of my students will, at the very least, be equipped with the basics: They’ll know how to write paragraphs, how to read critically [...]
