Welcome to The Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee. Here you will find historical facts, pictures, information on all upcoming events, and much more. Each year the National Voting Rights Museum & Institute in conjunction with 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement, Wallace Community [...]
A Racio-Economic Analysis of Teach for America: Counterstories of TFA Teachers of Color
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00Yvette 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
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00The 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
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00How 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”
Ian Haney-Lopez2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00Few 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 [...]
Moral March 14 Point Agenda
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:0014 Point People's Agenda for North Carolina 1. All Children Need High Quality, Constitutional, Well-Funded, Diverse Public Schools. NC must meet its Constitution's requirement of adequate and diverse schools by fully funding Leandro with transparent accountability and creating special [...]
Moral March on Raleigh
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00Moral March on Raleigh Click HERE for the Facebook event. For the past seven years, a fusion movement has been growing in North Carolina. In 2006, the Historic Thousands on Jones St. (HKonJ) People's Assembly [...]
Moving Photos Show the Not-So-Subtle Effect of Racial Micro-Aggression
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00For 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
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:32-05:00Yesterday’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 [...]