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A Racio-Economic Analysis of Teach for America: Counterstories of TFA Teachers of Color

2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00

Yvette V. Lapayese, Ph.D., Loyola Marymount University
Ursula S. Aldana, Ph.D.,Loyola Marymount University
Eduardo Lara, Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies | Originally Published at Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education. | Volume 11 Issue 1 Winter 2014 Download the Report [pdf] Introduction One [...]

IMPACT Errors: The Ghost of Michelle Rhee

2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00

The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) is still haunted by policies from the failed Michelle Rhee era, this time with the revelation of flawed IMPACT scores, a teacher evaluation system that relies heavily on standardized tests. DCPS is telling us there are two different errors in [...]

CODE Chicago – Help Elect a Representative School Board

2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00

‪How can you help win an Elected Representative School Board?‬En Español The CPS Board—appointed by the mayor— is not accountable to the people it is supposed to serve. The Board is failing our children. An overwhelming majority of Chicagoans in 327 precincts VOTED YES on the [...]

How the Genteel Rhetoric of “States’ Rights” Grew the “White Man’s Party”

2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00

Few names conjure the recalcitrant South, fighting integration with fire-breathing fury, like that of George Wallace. The central image of this “redneck poltergeist,” as one biographer referred to him, is of Wallace during his inauguration as governor of Alabama in January 1963, before waves of [...]

Moving Photos Show the Not-So-Subtle Effect of Racial Micro-Aggression

2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00

For her recent Tumblr photo series, Fordham University student and photographer Kiyun took photos of her friends, each holding a poster that describes an instance of racial micro-aggression personally encountered. The results are powerful. Racial micro-aggressions, as defined by Columbia University professor Derald Wing Sue, [...]

Wow! National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise

2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00

Yesterday’s National Day of Action was the largest coordinated action to reclaim the promise of public education in recent memory. Parents, teachers, students and community members took part in the Day of Action because they know that the market-based ideologies of privatization, austerity, division and competition are [...]

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