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Racism, Policing and Schools are NOT Separate Conversations
Our schools are more segregated than ever before (yes, more than before the Civil Rights Movement and Brown v. Board of Education) and we wonder why we can’t get anywhere with race and class relations in the US… We don’t even know each other.
Until we invest our most precious, until we entrust our most beloved, until we put our literal skin in the game, all of our social justice, anti-racism resolutions will not be enough.
It’s Up to Us says EdSecy King…
In Pursuit of Integration: U.S. Education Secretary John King is calling for programs that largely leave it up to...
Nikole Hannah-Johes bashes Philly Schools Reporting
yep. Say it. Say Race. Say it Say it SAY IT!!!!!!!! And stay tuned... The You-Don't-Deserve-A-Cookie post is coming....
Black Teachers Matter
This is long and beautifully written and totally worth the time... This: "in the early 1980s, the political winds were...
How Kids Learn about Race Stereotypes
Most of you already know much of this... but it's a nice redux (an yet another call to please, for the sake of all...
Familiarity doesn’t breed contempt…
Two articles hit my inbox over the past few days that show (again) that familiarity does not, in fact, breed contempt....
Status Quo in School Funding Unacceptable
From our Education Secretary: "I hope ... that folks see that they have a stake in the success of other people's...
Chronic Absenteeism… and Segregation
no surprise: "recent reporting from U.S. News & World Report found that some rich suburban districts receive more...
The Culture of the Smug White Liberal
Johnson-Huston writes “These … Liberals are quick to be against school choice, while their kids go to private...
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