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 [...]
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, [...]
Lessons From the 1963 Boycott Then and Now Anniversary Event
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:33-05:00You were there. If perchance you were not physically present at the actual 1963 Boycott of the Chicago Public Schools you can be there at the 50th Anniversary event,Lessons From the 1963 Boycott Then and Now. [See the Program [pdf]. View videos of the [...]
Position Statement on Standards and Testing for Young Children
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:37-05:00Working to support and nurture the rights and needs of young children. DEYproject.org Download the White Paper Standards and Testing for Young Children. Position Statement What is the problem? Today, the majority of classrooms for preschool, kindergarten and primary age children are required to [...]
NEPC; Report Cautions Against Federal Education Policies that Undermine Democracy
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:38-05:00How Recent Education Reforms Undermine Local School Governance and Democratic Education. National Education Policy Center Contact: William J. Mathis, (802) 383-0058, Ken.Howe@Colorado.edu Kenneth Howe, (303) 492-7229 URL for this press release: New Report Cautions Against Federal Education Policies that Undermine Democracy and Local Control BOULDER, CO October [...]
Prejudice; Omission is Permission! Colorblind is Color-Mute
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:38-05:00In America the premise is people are colorblind. Certainly our children are is the constant refrain. I know this is not so, for as a child I saw what was not discussed. The people who did not care for and about me were white. Those who cherished [...]
Laying Bare of Questions Which Have Been Hidden by [Common Core] Answers
Jane M. Gangi2016-11-29T17:39:39-05:00James Baldwin once said, “The greatest achievement of art is the ‘laying bare of questions which have been hidden by answers’” (as cited in Leafgren, 2009, p. 110). Although Baldwin is not included in text exemplars of Appendix B of the Common Core State [...]
A Colorblind Constitution: What Abigail Fisher’s Affirmative Action Case Is Really About
Nikole Hannah-Jones2016-11-29T17:39:42-05:00Update, June 29, 2015: The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would again hear Fisher v. Texas, an affirmative action case in which a white woman claims she was denied admission to the University of Texas because of her race. In 2013, the Court [...]
E-mails Link Bush Foundation, Corporations and Education Officials
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:42-05:00Originally Published on January 30, 2013. By Valerie Strauss. The Answer Sheet. Washington Post. A nonprofit group released thousands of e-mails today and said they show how a foundation begun by Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and national education reform leader, is working with public officials [...]