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
Photograph; Demonstrators supporting protesters in Ferguson, Mo., hold up mirrors to police during a march Wednesday in Oakland. Photo Credit: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle Beginning at birth we teach our children. We teach them how to talk, how to walk, and how to act when with other [...]
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 [...]
Photograph; Teenage girl (16-18) sitting by laptop, woman in background. A mother? A stranger? What is the relationship and if the girl is shamed what will she think and do? By Vicki Hoefle | Originally Published at Huffington Post. August 21, 2014 2:11 PM We live in [...]
Failure to see race correlates to a failure to see the funding crisis. The School Reality White People Cannot See is that education is not equitably funded. (Image: flickr / cc / cortonflow)By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Our Future. August 21, 2014 As the season [...]
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 [...]
By Ruth Conniff | Originally Published at In These Times. August 20, 2014 Once an effort to improve public education, the charter school movement has transformed into a money-making venture. There’s been a flood of local news stories in recent months about FBI raids on charter schools [...]
